Tower Talks with Inside Towers

Installing fiber is not easy and involves everything from local permitting, supply chain issues and field construction work. Deploying fiber in underground cable ducts can be especially challenging.
Ken Moore, Strategic Account Manager-Broadband at MaxCell speaks with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about Maxcell’s novel flexible fiber innerduct solutions that help streamline the labor and cost to run fiber cable in buried ducts.
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Today’s tower business is being impacted by mobile network operator capex adjustments, new spectrum deployments, some carrier consolidation and AI applied to various tower operations.
Yannis Macheras, Chief Executive Officer at Harmoni Towers, in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, offers his perspectives on running a private tower company in today’s environment.
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Demand for fiber connectivity is escalating to support large data transfers in and between data centers, and ultimately, for AI inference applications where they are needed closer to users.

Bill Major, Chief Executive Officer at FiberLight joins John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor to talk about the surging demand for fiber connectivity and the opportunities and challenges that creates for fiber network operators. 
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Any discussion about wireless cell site installations usually focuses on antennas, radios and cables. But a lot of ancillary equipment is needed for mounting and protecting radios and antennas at height, so that they function as designed.

Calvin Carmichael, Sales Representative at Allfasteners talks with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about the company’s new Raptor Radome, a special product designed for ease of cellsite installation and operation on flag poles and monopoles. 
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Discussions at Fiber Connect 2026 addressed fiber deployments across a range of access and transport applications for broadband, wireless, data center and IoT uses.
Clearfield bills itself as “The Fiber to Anywhere Company” and offers a wide variety of patented designed and manufactured components and connectivity elements that help speed up fiber deployments at lower labor costs.
Anis Khemakhem, Chief Commercial Officer at Clearfield, joined John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, at the event to discuss the opportunities and challenges with achieving efficient and cost-effective fiber deployments across a range of digital infrastructure applications. 
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