Best of Telecom tower reits
The 10 Best Telecom Tower REITs Datasets in 2026
10 Telecom tower reits picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. FCC Data Hub Licensing and Tower Data leads.
- 10ranked picks
- 18documented fields on stage
- 2/8with mapped coverage
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Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.
- 1 9/10Telecom tower reits
FCC Data Hub Licensing and Tower Data
Why it ranks first: it is the only record attributing structures to owning entities at national scale, and its identifier spine is what lets four unrelated layers become one inventory.
- 2 8/10Telecom tower reits
FCC Open Data Portal - Wireless Datasets
- 3 Nasdaq Data API
- 4 OpenCellID
- 5 8/10Telecom tower reits
Polygon.io Stocks and Options Market Data API
Why it ranks fifth: nothing else in the slice approaches this resolution ceiling — but its vocabulary is generic market fields, so it serves any ticker equally and says nothing tower-specific on its own.
- 6 7/10Telecom tower reits Continuously refreshed index
Data.gov Cell Tower Datasets Catalog
Why it ranks sixth: it is the only route into city-level siting detail, capturing facilities whose permitting lives locally even where the federal registry holds no matching row.
- 7 7/10Telecom tower reits United States · index refreshed daily
Data.gov Antenna Tower Datasets Catalog
field verified card schema …+6 moreWhy it ranks seventh: it overlaps its sibling catalog deliberately, staying on the board because its narrower query surfaces county and city lists the larger result set buries.
- 8 7/10Telecom tower reits
Nasdaq Listed Quote Pages for Tower REITs
One quote row per ticker per session.
- 9 7/10Telecom tower reits
SBA Communications Corporate Site — Portfolio and Investor Data
Corporate and portfolio-level aggregates by country plus dated milestone events. no individual-site records published.
- 10 7/10Telecom tower reits
Wireless Infrastructure Association Resource Library
Why it ranks tenth: it supplies the headline denominators every market-sizing model needs, and its document-level grain holds it below the structure-row records above it.
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Frequently asked questions
How many cell towers are there in the United States?
It depends what you count. The Wireless Infrastructure Association reports 158,500 purpose-built towers and 254,850 macrocell sites at end-2025; Wireless Estimator's independently compiled register totals about 149,196 towers across 276 companies; and the federal registry holds 1.09 million registration determinations, a wider net than macro towers alone.
Do any datasets attribute towers to their owning companies?
Three, at three grains. The FCC registry carries registrant entity names per determination. TowerMaps consolidates owner-level attributes across more than 600,000 sites drawn from several hundred owners. Wireless Estimator ranks 276 tower-owning companies — roughly 149,196 towers — with each count individually timestamped.
Does any record publish carrier tenancy for individual towers?
No. Carriers keep lease terms confidential, and TowerMaps explicitly excludes tenant and carrier fields from its site records. The closest defensible proxy in the catalog is observed-cell data, which shows which radios are actually heard near a structure without naming the lease behind them.
How many telecom tower REITs datasets does Datadory deliver?
Thirteen primary records scoped to the industry, pooled with nine cross-industry neighbors for 22 total. Scores run from 9 down to 6, coverage spans the United States plus a global observed-cell layer, grain runs from tick-level trades to annual research documents, and cadence is your call — daily, weekly, or hourly.