How To Buy Self Supporting Telecom Tower
The quote provided by your turnkey telecom provider for a self supporting telecom tower, would depend on a number of parameters that need to be understood for optimization of project cost and performance. Cost depends on the type of self supporting telecom tower design: Primarily, self supporting telecom tower can be constructed using two designs ð€“ Steel Lattice and Steel tubular construction.
 The steel latticed tower uses angular section steel elements for the construction of the tower. The angular elements can economize the material cost of the tower with reasonable load bearing capacity.
The tubular steel construction is faster to construct and has higher load bearing strength. However, it may outweigh the latticed construction in terms of material costs because it uses tubular elements.
 Maintenance costs: Self supporting telecom towers, like most offsite telecom infrastructure have periodic inspection. Welded joints, bolted elements and many such important aspects of the towers are carefully checked on an annual basis, or even more frequently.
 Tubular constructions require more in-depth testing for internal corrosion within the tubes, which is not the case with angular latticed constructions.
Technical specifications that affect project costs: Specifications such as equipment load, Wind loads and even snow load at cold areas, affect the cost of the self supporting telecom towers. Higher ratings of these would mean higher structural reinforcements, and hence higher cost.
 Accessories and other peripheral costs: To arrive at an accurate price quote the turnkey provider will also take into consideration various accessories used for the project that include equipment mounting assemblies, safety ladders, cable mounts and many such accessories required specifically for each location.
 Like any area of the telecom towers business, it is important for the telecom service provider to understand various elements of cost while ordering a self supporting telecom tower through a competent turnkey solution provider. Understanding these cost elements at a client level would greatly help in optimizing cost and performance, and ensuring greater financial viability of the project.