Who pays for the coverage in your building?

For twenty years, the answer was usually the carrier. Operators funded the DAS in exchange for equipment space, power, and an enterprise account worth serving. That bargain has largely dissolved, and many owners find out well into a project that a system they were counting on was never actually approved.

This four-page white paper lays out the four ways in-building and campus coverage actually gets paid for today, what decides which one fits your property, and the five questions worth asking before you commit capital.

What's inside

• Why carrier funding tightened, with the capital and traffic data behind it
• Carrier-funded, neutral host, enterprise-funded and private CBRS/5G compared side by side, including who owns the asset at year ten
• Where each carrier stands on shared-spectrum neutral host as of 2025
• A decision path you can run against your own property in ten minutes
• Five questions to ask any integrator or neutral host operator before signing

Written by engineers, not vendors

NHN sells no hardware and takes no commissions. This paper cites CTIA, the Small Cell Forum, the Wireless Infrastructure Association, the U.S. Energy Information Administration and on-record carrier statements. Every source is listed and linked.

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