NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association
is a non-profit trade association dedicated to providing a unified voice for companies in the diverse tower and communications infrastructure construction, service and maintenance industries.
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NATE Releases Carabiners and Quick Rigging Connectors Video
For Immediate Release: July 15, 2025 Video is the Fourth to Debut in Volume 8 of the Association’s Popular #ClimberConnection Series (Watertown, SD) [...]
NATE Reaches Agreement with T-Mobile for New Wireless Contracting Framework
For Immediate Release: July 10, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association, on behalf of its member contractor companies (who employ [...]
NATE Carabiners and Quick Rigging Connectors
#ClimberConnection Video
The NATE Carabiners and Quick Rigging Connectors #ClimberConnection video is intended to provide guidance, clarification and proper standards application to the industry’s technician workforce between carabiners designed as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) per ANSI/ASSP Z359 and those intended for material handling per ASMEB30. The NATE SEMC and this video refer to connectors designated for material handling as Quick Rigging Connectors (QRCs).
View the #ClimberConnection video series.
Climber Connection Videos
About WIN
The Wireless Industry Network (WIN) is a coast-to-coast grassroots program designed to promote NATE’s regional, state and local efforts, support existing state and national wireless organizations and facilitate communication between all stakeholders in the wireless industry.
WIN consists of a nationwide network of Regional Ambassadors and State Liaisons who are devoted to NATE’s mission and are passionate about expanding the Association’s message of safety, quality, standards and education in order to reach all stakeholders in the wireless ecosystem.
WIN encompasses eight regions within the United States: Pacific, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, Great Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast, Atlantic Coast and Southeast, and also includes a provincial grassroots structure in Canada as well as a presence in the Bahamas, Brazil, and Guam.
Through the Wireless Industry Network program, NATE is committed to winning the day… all day, every day!
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