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FCC and wireless carriers butt heads over backup power for cell towers

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2008-03-10 22:10:34 by willpark in IntoMobile
...towers throughout the nation As we saw with the Hurricane Katrina disaster, cellular communications failures during a time of crisis prove dangerous to public safety. So, in a move to try and ensure that cell towers are still functional during a power outage, the FCC has drafted regulation that would require network operators to retrofit...
 
Tags: cell towers, fcc, sites, cell tower sites, require, require network operators, cell tower, network, backup power supplies
 
 
 
 
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Sprint sells its cellular towers (so it can lease them back)

2008-07-24 14:08:10 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...towers to TowerCo for approximately $670 million in cash. Additionally, the two companies have entered into a long term leasing agreement where TowerCo will provide Sprint Nextel with wireless communications towers to support the company's CDMA, iDEN and WiMAX networks. First, I'm surprised it only takes 3,300 towers to cover their US market,...
 
Tags: sprint nextel motorola, sprint nextel, sprint, provide sprint nextel, towers, wireless communications towers, network, wireless network faster, press release sprint
 
 
 
 
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Taliban making good on promise to take down cell towers

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2008-03-27 19:10:49 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...towers. Around 10 towers have been attacked causing nearly $2 million in damage. Service providers have been forced to shut down service across southern Afghanistan at night. This has angered hundreds of thousands of customers who have no other telephones The Taliban is attacking certain towers because it believes that NATO forces are using...
 
Tags: towers, taliban, cell phone towers, taliban fighters, service providers, afghanistan, southern afghanistan, cell phone signals, service
 
 
 
 
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GH avisualagency Directs Huge Hi-Def Display Content for Nokia Towers at Heathrow's New Terminal 5

2008-05-03 11:15:22 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Towers, run all along the terminal to promote general brand awareness in a unique manner, in what was the only such exclusive advertisement sale made by British Airways Simon Ainslie, managing director of Nokia UK, says: "The sheer size and positioning and content will not only provide us with the perfect platform to communicate with...
 
Tags: nokia towers, towers, nokia, heathrow, terminal, avisualagency, art, content, art films
 
 
 
 
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Sprint to sell towers to TowerCo

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2008-07-24 16:02:56 by Teresa von Fuchs in CrunchGear
...towers to the aptly named TowerCo in an effort to generate some cash. The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is expected to raise about $670 million, which Sprint will most likely use to pay down some of its $24 billion debt Though the exact number of towers to be sold hasnt been finalized, the WSJ said a Sprint spokesperson estimated...
 
Tags: towers, sprint, towerco, carriers towers, cellular towers, aptly named towerco, sprint spokesperson, wall street journal, deal
 
 
 
 
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Workers Falling to Death from Cell Towers: Fast n Furious 3G Rollout to Blame? [At&t]

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2008-05-28 16:09:51 by posted by Pantha in
...towers, half of which occurred on AT&T projects. This follows four months of zero fatalities in the industry, and only 10 total last year from "elevated structures of all kinds" combined, like water or TV towers. While there's no definite way to prove this macabre causality, it's worth noting that AT&T been building out its 3G network with...
 
Tags: workers, communication tower workers, tower, att, fortune, att projects, fortune post, perform software upgrades, perform
 
 
 
 
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Workers Falling to Death from Cell Towers: Fast 'n' Furious 3G Rollout to Blame? [Cellphones]

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2008-05-28 12:09:51 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...towers, half of which occurred on AT&T projects. This follows four months of zero fatalities in the industry, and only 10 total last year from "elevated structures of all kinds" combined, like water or TV towers. While there's no definite way to prove this macabre causality, it's worth noting that AT&T been building out its 3G network with...
 
Tags: workers, communication tower workers, tower, att, fortune, att projects, fortune post, perform software upgrades, perform
 
 
 
 
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Walter Towers Are a Giant Wavy W, Make Us Seasick [Architecture]

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2008-09-30 11:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...towers in clusters with the coldly rational American skyscraper, apparently you wind up with a tower that has been cut, twirled and splayed apart, resulting in a giant undulating W that's a single, continuous building masquerading as four wavy towers. That's the theory behind Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group 's latest project in Prague,...
 
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The Atlantic: Verizon Did Give John McCain Special Treatment With Cell Towers [Verizon]

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2008-10-17 10:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...towers at John McCain's Arizona ranch to patch up his crappy reception, Verizon came out huffing with remarkable speed that it "was wrong," and they just put those towers up because the Secret Service said so and they had to, not because it was John McCain and he's more specialerer than you. However, the Atlantic's Joshua Green lays out why...
 
Tags: verizon, mccain, secret service, secret service tower, towers, cell towers, john mccain, tower, verizon plainly