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Built for networks where failure is not an option.

AFS Group designs, builds, restores and maintains wireless, fiber, energy and data center infrastructure, from raw-land tower builds to live nuclear facilities and hyperscale halls.

100+Employees + partner network
~50States licensed
3.7MFeet of fiber built
24/7Emergency mobilization
Follow the signal

Trusted by carriers, OEMs, hyperscalers and public agencies

  • AT&T
  • T-Mobile
  • Verizon
  • AWS
  • DISH
  • Ericsson
  • Nokia
  • Motorola Solutions
  • L3Harris
  • MasTec
  • Amentum
  • Comcast
  • DoD
  • DoE
Night aerial of a connected infrastructure landscape: cell towers, fiber routes, a data center campus, a substation and a city skyline linked by gold light. Morning aerial of the same connected infrastructure landscape in soft daylight.

01The network

One network.
Tower to grid.

Every layer that keeps a region connected, engineered, built, powered and restored by one accountable contractor.

Scroll to fly the network

01 / 05 · Wireless

Wireless & Radio

Tower and critical-infrastructure construction, installation and maintenance of radio and microwave access networks in multi-vendor environments.

  • Raw-land & colocation
  • Antenna & line systems
  • Microwave backhaul

1,500+ site FirstNet rollouts

02 / 05 · Wireline

Fiber, FTTx & HFC

Drafting, design, construction and maintenance of fiber-optic, FTTx and HFC networks, aerial and underground.

  • Aerial & underground
  • HDD & directional bore
  • Fusion splicing & OTDR

3.7M+ feet of fiber built

03 / 05 · Data centers

Mission-critical halls

Design, installation, commissioning and managed services inside live data centers and mission-critical facilities.

  • MEL inside live halls
  • Structured cabling
  • Power & thermal

Badged for hyperscale campuses

04 / 05 · Power

Power integration

Electrical service integration, cabinet and power systems and battery containment for the sites every network depends on.

  • Electrical service
  • Cabinet & power
  • Battery containment

Turnkey self-perform crews

05 / 05 · Restoration

When it goes dark

When a backbone goes hard down, AFS crews are dispatched, named and on route while others are still returning calls.

  • <30 min acknowledge
  • Named crews
  • Signed photo report

24/7 dispatch · 312-868-8722

Every element.
One accountable partner.

02What we do

Four disciplines. One crew you can call.

Self-performed civil, structural, electrical, telecom installation, fiber, testing and commissioning, across every layer of the network.

AFS technician climbing a red and white lattice tower beside a microwave dish

01/ 04

Wireless & Radio Communications

Cell tower and critical-infrastructure construction, installation and maintenance of radio and microwave access networks in multi-vendor environments.

  • Raw-land & colocation builds
  • Antenna & line systems
  • Microwave backhaul
  • 1,500+ site FirstNet rollouts
Plan a tower program
Horizontal directional drilling rigs set up along a roadside fiber route

02/ 04

Wireline, Fiber & HFC Networks

Full-lifecycle wireline services: drafting, design, construction and maintenance of fiber-optic, FTTx and HFC networks.

  • Aerial & underground
  • HDD & directional bore
  • Fusion splicing & OTDR
  • 3.7M+ ft built
Scope a fiber build
Open data center rack with fiber patch panels and network equipment

03/ 04

Mission-Critical & Data Centers

Turnkey IT infrastructure: design, installation, commissioning and managed services for data centers and mission-critical facilities.

  • MEL inside live halls
  • Structured cabling
  • Power & thermal
  • Hyperscale badged
Staff a live hall
Aerial fiber splice enclosure lit at night during an emergency restoration

04/ 04

Emergency Fiber Restoration

Hard-down outage response for carriers and network owners: crews dispatched, named and on route while others are still returning calls.

  • <30 min acknowledge
  • Named crews
  • Signed photo report
  • Hard down · crew dispatched
Call dispatch now

03End-to-end project execution

From site inception to closeout.

01

Program & Project Management

Comprehensive oversight from site inception through final commissioning, with proactive risk mitigation and cost control.

02

Architecture & Engineering

Site assessments, feasibility analysis and construction drawing development, with AutoCAD and GIS tooling in-house.

03

Civil & Structural Construction

Access roads, tower and shelter foundations, compound buildouts, heavy equipment, HDD and aerial work.

04

Installation & Commissioning

Full equipment installation, electrical service integration, system activation, splicing and data center retrofits.

05

Permitting & Regulatory Compliance

Municipal building and sub-code permit acquisition across all jurisdictions.

06

Closeout Documentation

Formal project closeout packages ensuring full client deliverable compliance.

04Emergency fiber restoration · On-call capability

One crew.
One on-call week.
Every outage worked to resolution.

Every AFS on-call crew is built to carry a full week of hard-down response on a live carrier backbone: acknowledging dispatch within half an hour, working multiple concurrent outages, and holding one continuous thread of accountability no matter how many times the ticket changes hands on the client side.

  1. Acknowledge and name the crewWithin 30 minutes of dispatch: confirmation, technicians' names and mobile numbers.
  2. Report from the field, not the officeOTDR distances, GPS pins and photographs sent as they are taken, not summarized after a shift.
  3. Close with a documentGeotagged, timestamped, approver-signed photo report delivered inside the thread that closed the ticket.
Hard down? Call 312-868-8722
AFS DISPATCH · on-call board Sample timeline
OTDR · 1550 nmscanning…
  1. HARD DOWNTicket opened · backbone span, 144F cable
  2. Dispatch received · on-call crew paged
  3. ACKCrew named · technicians' mobiles shared
  4. En route · live GPS pin sent to the thread
  5. FIELDOTDR shot · fault located, photos posted
  6. Splicing complete · loss verified on every fiber
  7. CLOSEDSigned, geotagged photo report delivered

Illustrative sequence of AFS's restoration protocol.

<30Minutes to acknowledge with a named crew
380+Fibers spliced in one on-call week
24/7Concurrent hard-down tickets carried
100%Outages worked to resolution

Restoration time is only partly a splicing problem. Most of the clock is spent deciding what to do and finding out who is doing it. A contractor who removes that friction shortens the outage more than a faster fusion splicer ever will.

05Past performance

Purpose-built for the most demanding environments.

Natural disasters, nuclear facilities, live hyperscale data centers and major metropolitan public safety systems.

Fabricated and installed steel support structures and battery containment for a major metropolitan area's redundant 911 facility, hardened to sustain emergency communications during large-scale disasters.

Restored cellular service under federally declared emergency conditions after catastrophic hurricane damage: damage assessment, full logistics, tower repair, equipment installation and commissioning.

Primary civil contractor for full-scale modernization of a regional utility's enterprise communications, selected as the OEM's sole contractor on Long Island based on performance in New Jersey.

Cleared rigorous nuclear background screening for protected-area work: structural tower upgrades, waveguide cable ladder installation and mission-critical telecom system upgrades.

Infrastructure upgrades across full transit networks: land clearing, fencing, concrete, shelter placement, electrical systems and new tower construction supporting public safety operations.

Mechanical, electrical and low-voltage services inside multiple live data centers: highly reliable power, thermal management and network connectivity for high-density IT workloads.

06Operational footprint

Same-day mobilization, coast to coast.

Licensed in nearly all 50 states with same-day and next-morning crew mobilization across core markets, plus rapid deployment under declared emergency conditions, anywhere we're needed.

07Clients & qualifications

Serving the highest tier of the ecosystem.

Wireless

  • T-Mobile
  • AT&T
  • Verizon
  • DISH
  • U.S. Cellular
  • Ericsson
  • Nokia

Wireline & Utility

  • AT&T
  • Comcast
  • Lumen
  • Windstream
  • Eversource
  • MasTec

Public Sector

  • DoD
  • DoE
  • FDNY
  • NYPD
  • NYC DoITT
  • L3Harris

Certifications

  • OSHA 10 / 30
  • NWSA TT1 · TT2
  • Comtrain Climb & Rescue
  • FAA Part 107
  • RF Awareness
  • Nuclear clearance

08From the field

Our work, not stock photos.

Tower erections, monopole climbs, splice work, foundations and power integration, photographed on our own sites.

09Why AFS Group

A trusted, high-reliability partner.

Licensed in nearly all 50 states

With offices in Chicago, New Jersey and Los Angeles.

Certified, safety-trained crews

OSHA 10/30, NWSA, Comtrain, RF hazards, FAA-certified drone pilots, plus OEM certifications.

Nuclear facility clearance

Background-screened and authorized for protected-area work.

Data center facility clearance

Badged and screened for all major players.

Proven emergency response

Under federally declared disaster conditions.

Sole contractor for a global OEM

On a statewide deployment, selected on performance.

Military, first responder & government work

Cleared and badged for work on military bases across the U.S. and abroad.

Turnkey self-perform capability

Civil, structural, electrical, telecom install, fiber, testing and commissioning.

Program-scale repeatability

1,500+ site FirstNet rollouts, 3,000+ site tower mapping, 3.7M+ ft of fiber.

10Contact

Put a crew on it.

Scope of work