Telecommunication Carrier Alliance for Responsible Riser Management & Access
We welcome Telecom Carriers, Landlords, Property Managers and all other stakeholders to the table.
Facilities-based carriers make a significant investment to bring their service into a building. As a result, the building’s residents and businesses benefit from telecom services with greater resiliency and additional competitive choice.
Reasonable fees for services rendered - for instance, one-time fees for technical consulting and engineering to establish the incoming carrier’s presence and distribution - are reasonable when they can be passed through the property manager on a cost recovery basis. In the same way, reasonable rent for space occupied by telecommunications equipment, which rent is typically similar to the per-square-foot charge for basement storage space, is expected. Read more
Property owners need to lease space. Having a rich diversity of telecom carriers in their buildings, with the most modern infrastructure, is key to leasing space. But landlords have also seen competitive telecoms come and go through the years, many leaving a mess in their wake. Telecom providers acquire, divest and go bankrupt frequently, leaving property managers with little industry insight as to what infrastructure is abandoned or not. Read more
End users of telecom services want the technical and financial benefits of choice, and want good service delivered quickly. They rarely want to wade into the detailed politics on how their service gets to them. If there is a problem with their service, they expect to call the telecom provider whom they are paying, and for the provider to be able to fix it immediately. Read more