CarrierClass Announces
Joint Tower Development Venture with Liberty Towers
Plymouth Meeting,
PA, January 2008 – Carrier Class Site
Development LLC ("Carrier Class"), a company focused on developing
and leasing communication tower sites, announced that it
has entered into a joint communications tower development venture
with Liberty Towers, LLC (“Liberty”), headquartered in the
Washington, D.C. area. Over the next 3 years, Carrier Class and
Liberty will develop at least 60 high quality, EIA/TIA-222 Revision
G standard tower sites in high carrier demand locations throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
According to Carrier Class CEO Jim Innes, “This
venture combines Liberty’s financial and operating strength with
Carrier Class’s recognized knowledge and site development experience
in the Northeast Corridor. The companies' combined talents
create a powerful level of technical and operational experience,
coupled with 20-plus years of tower industry involvement, a shared reputation for high ethical standards and peer respect
that few others in our industry can match.”
Michael Hofe, Managing Director, President & COO
of Liberty stated, “Jim Innes and Carrier Class represent integrity
and quality in the wireless industry. We are extremely pleased and
excited about the opportunities that our relationship will develop.
We know that that our carrier partners will benefit from our
hands-on approach to delivering quality sites on a timely basis.”
About Carrier Class Site Development
In addition to Innes, Carrier Class’s
management team includes legal and planning professionals who have zoned and permitted over 300 wireless sites in the
last seven years, including more than 100 raw land tower sites. The
CCSD team is a corps of mature, highly seasoned site
acquisition professionals.
Before founding Carrier Class Site Development,
Innes was founder and CEO of Broadband Network Development
and VP of Wireless Access Technologies. Both companies
provided rooftop site management, microwave backhaul network
implementation, and site acquisition services for site owners and
wireless service providers including AT&T, Verizon Wireless,
T-Mobile, Sprint-Nextel, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, and Advance
Realty. During his two decades in the wireless industry, Jim has
held management positions with a range of firms including MetroNet Communications, MicroNet Communications/Lenfest
Group, Apex Site Management, and American Tower Corporation.
Innes, a founding board member of the
Pennsylvania Wireless Association, is also a member of the Radio Club
of America and the Association of Public Safety Communications
Officers.
About Liberty Towers
Liberty Towers, LLC (www.libertytowers.com)
is a Washington, D.C. area based communications tower company
that develops, acquires and manages wireless communications towers
throughout the continental United States. Liberty’s executives and
managers have over 130 years of combined experience in financing, acquiring, developing and operating wireless and
communications tower and other communications businesses.
Liberty is currently developing tower sites in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.
Liberty founder,
President and COO Michael Hofe has been involved in the wireless
telecommunications industry for 25 years, participating in
every aspect of system design, deployment and ongoing operations.
Hofe has also
been an industry consultant and is often invited to speak at various
industry conferences. He holds several Federal Communications
Commission Licenses, including a Lifetime General Radiotelephone
Operator license. Hofe is a past member of the National
Association of Tower Erectors Safety and Education Committee. |
