By Jim Fryer, Managing Editor, Inside Towers
In a motion filed June 15, in a Massachusetts District Court, a small
data consulting company, CellInfo, claimed American Tower Corp. (ATC)
took their “confidential information and trade secrets for the purpose
of unfairly competing with CellInfo and improperly benefiting ATC.” The
two companies signed a Master Consulting Services Agreement in January
of 2017, but CellInfo claims American started developing its own
rudimentary version of their application when they began getting
requests from ATC employees for algorithms used in its development.
CellInfo describes itself as a small Massachusetts company, founded
in 2014, by two former high-school classmates who built “an innovative
asset intelligence platform that provides real-time analysis for
strategic and tactical business decisions” for companies in the
broadband infrastructure business. ATC had, according to the suit,
worked with CellInfo for the past two years and “had tailored [their
platform] for ATC’s specific needs” because “they did not have any
similar platform or software.”
By retrieving, normalizing and analyzing data from disparate sources
both inside and outside of ATC, CellInfo believed that it could “unlock
untapped revenues for ATC.” One of the applications of CellInfo’s data
was to “quickly and easily determine whether all equipment installed on a
cellular tower is allowed to be there and also determine if equipment
installed on the tower exceeds wind loading restrictions.” Continue Reading
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