February 2017 | Business View Magazine

62 63 quality, and at an overall, reduced cost to our custom- ers.” The SAC Engine Room recognizes that as the carri- ers modernize their networks with more efficient base station equipment or newer technology, they will have an increased need to mass-produce entitlement and regulatory approv- als in a controlled, expeditious, and economical manner. “The carriers are going to have other challenges; we’re trying to address how to get these facilities leased, zoned, permitted, up, and running,” Koziel says. “And if we take the same approach that we’ve taken for many years, which a lot of companies continue to do, I don’t know how folks are going to be able to keep up with the growth of the industry.” Another fortuitous event for SAC took place in 2014, when it was ac- quired by Nokia, the Finnish multina- tional communications and informa- tion technology company. “We know we have to evolve the infrastructure from where it is today, to where it needs to be tomorrow,” Koziel de- clares. “And with Nokia acquiring SAC and bringing that self-perform capability in-house, we’re able to work with both the OEM and the carrier way ahead of time. The 5G trials I mentioned? We’re working on that stuff now, and by doing so, we’re going to be so much better prepared and we’re going to be able to work out the nuances of how the implementation should flow. And we’re hoping, SACWireless Preferred vendor n TriTEL Services, Inc. www.tritelservices.com TriTEL Services, Inc. is a turnkey, wireless con- struction company located in Atlanta, Georgia. It specializes in a wide variety of different projects and services that include, but are not limited to: tower modifications, 2G harvesting, 3G harvesting, LTE deployment, decommissioning, backhaul, DAS, small cell, carrier adds, new site builds, co-loca- tions, raw land construction, helical pile/anchor installations, aerial welding, and more. in investing that time and money and effort today, that when it does become commercially available, that we have a better game plan than our competition; that we’ve been working on the solution from a tech- nology standpoint as well as from an implementation standpoint, for several years. And that adds tremen- dous value both to our company and to the carrier, our customer.”