Jonathan Kramer on Wireless Tower Siting

Here’s a gem of a cell tower that literally towers over an otherwise beautiful desert and mountain landscape along I-25 south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This tower is 150 feet tall, and completely towers over everything in the view of the drivers along this stretch of I-25.  For those of you who want more information [...]

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CalWa, the California Wireless Association, has just released their end-of-year newsletter.  This is always an interesting read because it provides a good insight into California-based views of regulation, deployment and the like.
The current issue features stories on teh FCC Shot Clock; the Sprint v. Palos Verdes Estates case; the good public service work done by [...]

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Thanks to Julian Quattlebaum III of the Channel Law Group for sending this along!

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The FCC’s “Shot Clock” decision has generated this amusing lyric parody of Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name.”  I received a message from the anonymous author giving me permission to post it here at CellularPCS.com.
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Shot Through The Clock
(A parody of, and sung to Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name”)
Shot [...]

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It is the worlds largest cell site…no, sorry, kidding…it’s the worlds largest monolithic rock, for decades called Ayers, and now (again) by its traditional name, Uluru.
I took this photo about 48 hours ago, just before sunset.
This is a spiritual and quiet place (when away from us tourists).
Go.
(Click on the photo for a much larger version…Photo [...]

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The firm of Curry & Kerlinger, LLC (who serve as “consultants to the wind power industry on birds and other wildlife issues”) has an interesting set of stats about the various ways that birds are killed each year:
Deaths annually from (descending ranking):

Glass Windows: 100 to 900+ million
Electrical Transmission lines: “up to 174 million”
House Cats: 100 [...]

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August 30, 2009:  In a copyrighted story in The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California), reporter Jeff Horseman discusses how cell phone sites are are being hidden within clock towers, camouflaged mono-trees, and church steeples.  This is a very informative and balanced article.
Jonathan is quoted throughout the story, titled “Cell phone towers sneaking in to Inland neighborhoods in [...]

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On advisor’s opinion…
“Learn how to really connect” is one of the slogan’s you’ll find currently running on Clearwire’s web site.
Actually, it’s not a bad idea, and I encourage them to follow their own counsel.
Early this year, before Clearwire started their big deployment efforts in earnest in Southern California, I reached out to one of their [...]

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I recently posted a message to a list serve run by the League of California Cities aimed at local government planners. That posting has provoked a number of comments, universally positive from local government planners and attorneys. I did receive what might be called a negative response from a wireless industry siting agent.
I’ll [...]

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The hot news recently has been about unlocking (or “jailbreaking”) Apple’s iPhone. Apple posted the following statement on its website (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3743), which as of 8/1/09 was not available at Apple’s site, but still available via Google’s cache:
“Unauthorized modification of iPhone OS has been a major source of instability, disruption of services, and other issues
“As designed [...]

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