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WHAT IS IT? 5G is the quick way to reference fifth-generation wireless. While many disagree about the minute specs and details of 5G, the...

OSP engineering services often require us here at Katapult to wear many hats. Workflow improvements, pole loading calculations, utility...

Pole owners and attachers both have a lot on their plates. Not only are they responsible for providing power and communications service...

At Katapult Engineering, two fast-paced industries intersect to create a unique training challenge. Software engineering requires great...

You have a few thousand poles to survey, a client expecting deliverables on a deadline, and FCC timelines that keep getting shorter. The survey is the first real step, and almost everything downstream depends on how well it goes. Get clean, accurate, defensible data back from the field and the rest of the project has something solid to build on. Get incomplete or questionable data and you are looking at rework, disputes, and a construction date that keeps sliding. The utility

You just wrapped a long day in the field. Your crew covered 200 poles across two routes (and a couple pickups on the way home), and you have thousands of photos sitting on SD cards and hard drives across multiple devices. Now the real question hits: how do you get all of that data uploaded, organized, and processed by your office team before next week's deadline? For OSP engineering teams running high-volume projects, the window between field collection and office processing

Your field crew just came back with 4,000 photos from a 200-pole survey. The images are sitting on a hard drive. Your client is expecting annotated heights, make ready calls, and pole loading files by the end of next week. Between those raw photos and that finished deliverable package is the most labor-intensive phase of any pole attachment project: data processing. This is the phase where photos become measurements, measurements become engineering decisions, and engineering

Your engineering team just discovered that three midspan photos are missing from yesterday's collection run. The poles are four hours away. Your field crew has already moved to a different project. And the client needs the engineering package by Friday. Every return trip to the field costs time, money, and morale. But the real damage isn't just the wasted truck roll. It's the cascading delay through make ready engineering , pole loading analysis , application submission, an

You have 3,000 poles to survey, a crew that just started last month, and a client expecting deliverables by Friday. Traditional data collection would require your most experienced engineers in the field for weeks, manually measuring attachment heights with hot sticks or laser rangefinders and recording everything on paper or tablets. Then your office team would spend additional weeks re-entering that data into permit forms, resolving discrepancies, and potentially building it

Our field crews collect data on 1000+ poles, in multiple markets, on a weekly basis. This means that finding advantages in the smallest...