The current demand for data-intensive smart phones requires greater capacity. However, capacity is in short supply as wireless carriers struggle to meet the needs of their customers. For decades, communication towers have essentially been the backbone for connecting wireless signals. As the 21st century unfolds, though, antenna sizes are being reduced to the size of books as companies figure out more efficient ways to broadcast cellular data. The need for steel structures to support heavy equipment is a dying trend. In dense metropolitan areas, the real estate does not exist to construct multiple tower sites–or even one for that matter. Rooftops of business owners, schools, and churches are now becoming the new antenna skyline for connecting wireless signals. The infrastructure picture of the past is taking new form.
As a direct result of the capacity issue and the need for antenna space, tower infrastructure owners are being offered premiums for their assets. The dying trends are irrelevant to buyers because they are concerned with dominating the last mile. Small tower owners cannot compete on the same levels as these public companies and will ultimately lose the battle. Quantum Group firmly understands the dynamics of this market and believes that these are opportune times to consider selling your tower assets. Tower cash flows are a beautiful thing, but given that future technologies are rapidly coming to fruition and premiums are being offered to walk away from the uncertainty of future consolidation, Quantum highly recommends taking a look at we can do for your assets.
Consider the buying and selling of securities. One day you bought stock XYZ at $5 a share and it paid 20% dividends. The value of the stock stays near $5, but the yield is too attractive to walk away from. Then one day, the stock moves to $10 a share. Aware or not of this movement, your broker calls you and says, “I’d like to borrow a moment of your time to discuss selling these shares.” He tells you, “If you haven’t considered selling your shares, then you should definitely consider it now as XYZ’s stock may never be this high again.” However your broker isn’t just trying to sell you out of stock, so he says, “I think you should consider selling, but I know the market hasn’t fully paid up for this stock yet. I bet I can sell your shares near $12 a share.”
This is the process of the Quantum Group. Quantum understands your cash flows and how valuable they are to your well being. The guy with stock XYZ can always buy back into the stock and collect dividends, but why not sell at $12 and get back in around $5 again. This logic is applied to tower ownership. If the cash flows are around $100k and a company offers you $1,000,000, it’s smart to consider the buyout and in no way precludes you from taking that money and buying more towers.
The options are endless, but the market timing is not. Eventually technology will change and Quantum will have to change its website and market to other industries. For now, though, Quantum is the leading industry broker with more than 400 deals closed involving thousands of communication towers. We invite you to see what Quantum can do for your tower assets. We perform all our services on a contingent fee basis and do not receive a fee unless there is a successful transaction. Quantum’s clients come first and are always in control of the decision making process.