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Happy New Year!

I want to take this opportunity to wish all NATE member companies a Happy New Year! Let's all hope 2024 is a safe, healthy, and prosperous year for the Association’s member companies and employees.

ANSI/ASSP A10.48-2023 Standard

The cover story of this edition of Tower Times features a Planning Advisory Notice article titled Overview of the ANSI/ASSP A10.48 and the ANSI/TIA 322 and how they improve communication, quality, efficiency, and safety.

The feature is timely as the article in part details the important updates included in the revised ANSI/ASSP A10.48-2023 Standard – Criteria for Safety Practices with the Construction, Demolition, Modification, and Maintenance of Communications Structures document.

The updated ANSI/ASSP A10.48- 2023 Standard, effective on January 1, 2024, covers the latest safety practices and training recommendations for the construction, demolition, modification, and maintenance of communication structures.

The Association is selling the revised version of the standard and encourages our member companies to order the standard directly through NATE at the following website link: https://natehome.com/regulations-standards/ standards/ansi-assp-a10-482023-standard/.

NATE UNITE 2024

The new year means that the Association’s Super Bowl, NATE UNITE, is right around the corner. The Association is excited about what is in store for NATE UNITE 2024, slated for February 19-22 at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. This year’s conference is shaping up to be the largest with the most diverse array of speakers, educational sessions, luncheons, networking sessions, workshops, and events that NATE has ever hosted in one location!

Individuals interested in attending NATE UNITE 2024 and companies interested in sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are encouraged to visit NATE’s website today (natehome.com).

With iconic tourist locations such as Graceland, the National Civil Rights Museum, Beale Street, the Bass Pro Shop at the Memphis Pyramid, and Sun Studios, among the famous destinations, Memphis will be a unique and exciting host city for NATE UNITE 2024. So, channel your inner Elvis Presley, put on those blue suede shoes, and join us in Memphis this February!

All In, Always!

Todd Schlekeway is the President & CEO of NATE. He can be reached at 605-882-5865 or todd@natehome.com

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Chairman's Corner - 2024 Tower Times Magazine Volume 1

What a busy fall this has been, time has flown by since the NATE Summer Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. We are now in the final stages of preparing for NATE UNITE 2024, in Memphis, Tennessee. I am very excited about the plans for NATE UNITE 2024. The Trade Show Committee is continually making improvements and we are encouraged by the early registrations indicating this may be one of our biggest and best shows yet.

November was a busy month with our C-Suite tour to AT&T in Dallas, Texas, down to Houston, Texas, to meet Crown Castle and then up to Bellevue, Washington to meet T-Mobile. These meetings provide a great venue to discuss and better understand the needs of some of our larger customers and it allows us a forum to present many of the issues that are important to our member companies. Topics ranged from matrix pricing, safety metrics, MSA terms, third-party vetting systems, inflation, worker recruitment and retention issues, all the way to regulatory matters and how we can support each other to provide a continual future flow of work, which will support our industry.

A few days later, we went to Denver, Colorado, where Todd Schlekeway received the Jay Kitchen Leadership Award from Radio Club of America. The Radio Club was formed in 1909 and is the world’s oldest professional society for persons involved in the wireless industry. It was a great night honoring the award winners and was topped off by Marty Cooper as the keynote speaker for the event.

November ended with the election of new officers for the NATE Board of Directors. We had eleven candidates running for the four open positions. I want to congratulate Randy Scott and Aaron Paulette, who will remain on the board. Joel Hightower and Casey Banner will both be joining the Board at NATE UNITE 2024 in February. All the candidates did a great job representing themselves and the wireless industry. I would also like to thank Jimmy Miller, who will be stepping down from the board after 10 years of service to NATE. Although Jimmy will be missed in the board room, he will continue to support NATE’s Legislative & Regulatory Council.

December started with my fifth visit to Washington D.C. in the last two years. This trip was to visit several new Senators, Congressmen, Congresswomen, four FCC Commissioners, and the Department of Labor. The topics with the Senators and Congressional Representatives revolved around the spectrum authority delays and the impact that it is having on our industry and in particular the NATE member companies. Simply put, without spectrum, we do not have anything to build. The next topic was the hold up in D.C. over the allocation of new frequency bands for 6G and beyond.

The United States has continually been a world leader in technology and this delay has put us at least two years behind other countries around the globe.

Our last meeting was the signing of the NATE-OSHA-FCC National Strategic Partnership. This new 5-year agreement will allow NATE to continue leading the charge towards identifying trends in the workplace that would otherwise lead to injuries or fatalities.

Over the last two years, the committees have reviewed over 5,500 individual jobsite audits and categorized tens of thousands of data points collected through the NATE STAR participants and other industry partners. If you are not a NATE STAR participant, I would encourage you to consider it. As Chairman, I am very proud to have signed this agreement on behalf of NATE.

Victor Drouin is the Chairman of NATE and President of Green Mountain Communications, Inc. in Pembroke, New Hampshire. He can be reached at 603-717- 7117 or v.drouin@ greenmtncomm.com.

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Vertical Freedom had a private screening in South Florida with 80 people attending at Broward College. The photos are courtesy of Broward College/Downtown Photo. Thank you to @neptunousa and @mylearningalliance for hosting an amazing event!

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WISPAPALOOZA is in full force and so is the NATE Team. Visit Booth #502 to learn about the benefits of becoming a NATE Member.

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Elevate Your Future! A career in wireless offers enormous opportunities. Check out the Telecom Jobs Connect portal today! https://bit.ly/3StAm5A Created for candidates and employers.

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Enjoy this #ClimberConnection video about Wireless Coverage at Yellowstone National Park https://bit.ly/3Da08EE

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‪A special thank you to the team at @TalonAerolytics for conducting a drone demonstration at today’s NATE UAS Showcase Event at the @CrownCastle tower site in Gainesville, VA! We appreciate you! #Drones #ElevateWireless ‬ https://www.instagram.com/p/BousLDogrUg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15f2hraipwxzs

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A special thank you to AT&T’s President of the Northern Plains States Cheryl Riley for meeting with NATE Executive Director Todd Schlekeway and NATE WIN Great Plains Ambassador Craig Snyder today! #5G #ElevateWireless #Infrastructure https://www.instagram.com/p/BnEyMEHFG83/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1azpw4lpmyfpa

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Calling all NATE member photography enthusiasts! #nate #towers #elevatewireless #allinalways https://www.instagram.com/p/CCD1YAyA8Jo/?igshid=pa08w4tu613j

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Save the Date! NATE is a proud supporter of Safe + Sound Week.....August 10-16, 2020! #nate #safety #workforce #elevatewireless #allinalways https://www.instagram.com/p/CByPcI_gUpC/?igshid=ye1a6hlgvwvm

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NATE member company Advanced Tower Services, Inc. hosted FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr this week while working at the Lookout Hill tower site in Lordsburg, New Mexico! (Left to Right: Joey Gillies, Brendan Carr, Robert Gallegos and Ricardo Medina). #ElevateWireless #NATE #Deployment (at Lordsburg, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7GtQ0JAexO/?igshid=159flk1qt42sf

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‪NATE Executive Director Todd Schlekeway and FCC Commissioner @BrendanCarrFCC are enjoying tonight’s Federal Communications Bar Association Annual FCC Chairman’s Dinner in Washington, D.C. #FCC #ChairmansDinner #ElevateWireless ‬ (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/B56UA6ugpXY/?igshid=9xdm3642g7xs

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Congrats to Jessica Cobb from MDTS on being elected by her industry peers in the 2020 NATE Board of Directors election! #elevatewireless https://www.instagram.com/p/B55gFl6gh4w/?igshid=1u4afw1a0qfet

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Congrats to John Paul Jones from Tower & Turbine Technologies on being re-elected by his industry peers in the 2020 NATE Board of Directors election! #elevatewireless https://www.instagram.com/p/B55f_Wjgxam/?igshid=ruu5pdlszecv

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Congrats to Bryan Lee from Lee Antenna & Line Service Inc. on being re-elected by his industry peers in the 2020 NATE Board of Directors election! #elevatewireless https://www.instagram.com/p/B55fzR-ADNx/?igshid=72mcn5yhjvwb

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Congrats to Kevin Dougherty from MILLENNIA CONTRACTING, INC. on being re-elected by his industry peers in the 2020 NATE Board of Directors election! #elevatewireless https://www.instagram.com/p/B55fqKYAH9H/?igshid=1k4k7sb4az204