Hold On and Move Ahead

Last week, we were given the news that the budget had run low on many of the small cell sites.  At this point, I was working on 61 projects, all in different phases of completion.  Not to mention, I didn’t find out from whom I report to at Verizon but another vendor that works for me!  While it was a bit crushing, especially because we had been told we were going to be getting upwards of 150 sites by the end of the year, it is what it is.  (I’ve really learned to embrace that saying.)

Anyway, so how they handled the slow down of projects is by “ranking” each site by the lack of cell coverage in the area.  My RF (Radio Frequency) Engineers at Verizon placed all 350 sites they have going into the Valley, by most important to least important.  Again, this is ranked from how much data is being pulled from each Macro site.  If they are to capacity, small cell sites are needed NOW!!  We are able to work on any sites that are ranked 1 – 100.  Many of these are ‘SuperBowl’ sites and I only have 4 of these sites.  I didn’t fare too badly as 35 of my sites are in the top 100.  So plenty to keep me busy…which makes me happy. 

Much to my surprise, Verizon handed over 14 more sites that fall under the top 100 to me yesterday!  I was ecstatic!  Working these sites from the beginning is very time consuming and these are to be built in 2015.  So it is up to me to ensure these sites get through the system!  Along with that, he has given me 2 new jurisdictions to get to fall into my small cell web….I am looking forward to reaching out to new areas and getting them onboard to this interesting project.