SMALL CELL
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SMALL CELLS & OUTDOOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS (oDAS)
ENHANCING NETWORK COVERAGE & CAPACITY
Even robust cellular networks encounter capacity and coverage limitations. Tama Tech is an expert in small cell and oDAS technologies that enhance coverage and capacity in places where the network performance may be compromised
and where connectivity is critical. We provide expert siting solutions to achieve optimum network performance in difficult to reach places, such as enterprise buildings, shopping centers, outdoor urban and recreational areas, roadways
with terrain interference, rails corridors and tunnels. In addition, Tama Techs infrastructure affiliate develops, owns,
and leases back poles in the right of way to carriers, utilities, municipalities, enterprises, broadband/internet service providers and smart city IoT operators, offering financing flexibility and faster deployment.
UTILITY POLES
We have worked with large, investor-owned utilities
as well as small, municipally owned electric companies and local cooperatives. Because Tama Tech has experience working with both utility companies and with wireless companies. We understand the safety requirements of poles owners, as well as
the requirements for an effective wireless deployment that meets our customers' RF objectives. This helps us negotiate design standards with the utility companies that will allow for safe and effective wireless installations. Many of Tama Techs real estate specialists are also attorneys who can effectively facilitate negotiations between attorneys and risk management personnel on both sides of the table.
POLE LICENSING AND MAKE-READY MANAGEMENT
Tama Tech has a team dedicated to pole licensing and make-ready management. Our pole licensing team will submit the pole license applications for wireless attachments to the utilities and follow the make-ready process with the utility through to completion.
Our outside plant engineers attend the joint rideouts with the utility field engineers to plan the make-ready process. This allows us to negotiate with the utilities and avoid expensive and unnecessary moves and pole replacements.
INNOVATIVE SITING & DESIGN SOLUTIONS
Picking the right candidates on the first try saves time and prevents expensive and time-consuming re-work.
Tama Techs experienced outside plant engineers select the right location for small cells and oDAS nodes based on
their knowledge of utility pole owner standards, radio frequency requirements and equipment limitations.
OSP engineers collect pole data using state-of-the-art photogrammetry tools that export data directly into programs
that calculate pole loading and attachment locations.
MAINTENANCE
Tama Tech provides both routine general maintenance following OEM and owner protocols
for small cells and oDAS nodes, as well as emergency response to trouble tickets.
Our emergency number is staffed 24/7 and crews
can be dispatched to assess
and repair sites across the country.
ENGINEERING SERVICES
Our team produces high-quality, detailed lease exhibits and PE stamped construction and zoning drawings. Using field data collected by our outside plant engineers, our PEs can produce structural analyses for utility poles, calculate the locations of existing attachments, and create make-ready plans to submit with pole license applications.
CONSTRUCTION
Tama Tech provides both construction and construction management for all types of small cells and oDAS installations. Tama Tech has a fleet of bucket trucks that we deploy for construction in the telecommunications space, as well as relationships with electrical space contractors across the country. The benefit of having clients that are both utilities and wireless carriers means that our construction crews have a depth of knowledge that allows them to work safely on and around utility poles in the right-of-way, and to property install, test and commission wireless equipment. Our wireless construction technicians are certified by the OEMs to install and maintain wireless equipment.