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Business View Magazine
The National Association
of Tower Erectors
Elevating wireless
Advances in wireless are changing the landscape and
delivery models for industries as diverse as health
care, financial services, higher education, agricul-
ture, energy, aviation, utilities, public safety, govern-
ment and the military. And the National Association of
Tower Erectors (NATE), a national trade organization,
is providing the “muscle” behind this mobility revolu-
tion. NATE’s 800 + member companies are playing a
prominent role as wireless infrastructure service and
equipment providers in order to enable this global con-
nectivity.
This enhanced technology is vital to meet both our
present and future broadband needs and society’s in-
satiable thirst for data consumption. According to an-
nual survey results released by CTIA, The Wireless As-
sociation, Americans used 9.6 trillion megabytes (MB)
of data in 2015. This data usage is three times the
