Crown Castle

[Mike O'Dell]

Lightsquared has managed to get *permission from the FCC*
to completely screw GPS with their service. People pissing
and moaning about "ugly poles" don't stand a chance in hell
of having any impact when the fix is in that deeply.

	-mo



On 4/29/11 2:03 AM, Chip Fetrow wrote:
> Frank:
>
> How did you find out Crown Castle is involved? It seems unlikely because
> the phone and power companies generally manage their poles themselves.
> The exception from time to time Verizon Wireless will allow American
> Tower to manage their actual towers.
>
> I also wonder where you live, other than it being Northern Virginia. In
> most areas, the wireless companies can locate on buildings or erect a
> monopole, and in some rare cases, actual towers.
>
> In NoVA, Great Falls, specifically along Georgetown Pike, the NIMBYS are
> particularally strong, and exceptionally well funded. They have
> prevented the use of monopoles, with a very few exceptions like the
> replacement of the tower at the Fairfax County Fire Station in Great
> Falls in order to accomidate wireless carriers.
>
> If you look carefully as you drive down Georgetown Pike you will see
> brown utility poles with brown boxes side mounted to them near the base,
> along with a brown meter base, and brown transmission lines leading to
> smallish brown antennas mounted around the pole at the top. I believe
> these to be AT&T Mobility sites, but that seems to be so out of
> character for them -- after all, they don't care about coverage much.
>
> I would like to stop and inspect one of the installations for
> information as to who owns them, but that would be dangerous as there
> are few places to pull over or even walk beside Georgetown Pike, which
> VDOT would like to make safer, but those well funded NIMBYS don't want
> the road fixed.
>
>
> I wonder if some knowledgeable NIMBY didn't put the sign up you your
> local pole in order to scare people who live nearby. Nearly no wireless
> company wants to notify the public of what they are up to because they
> don't want to give those who would oppose them any information. Of
> course if the local zoning administrator forces them to put up a sign,
> they will, but those signs are generally required to have contact
> information on them that either lists the government person to contact
> or both government contact and the company contact.
>
> --chip
>
> On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:05 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:33:31 -0700
>> From: "fgentges at mindspring.com" <fgentges at mindspring.com>
>> To: Tacos <tacos at amrad.org>
>> Subject: Crown Castle
>>
>> A telephone pole just outside our neighborhood now has a sign posted
>> on it.
>>
>> The sign says it is a "Future Antenna Pole" and any questions to
>> "contact your joint pole administrator". No phone number or web site is
>> listed.
>>
>> I found www.crowncastle.com is part of whatever is going on with this
>> pole. The web site talks about wireless infrastructure, 23000 towers
>> and how the company is a good place to invest. It talks about
>> distributed antenna systems. Fancy artwork and very little detail on
>> what they are up to.
>>
>> What should I expect to see or get in wireless? Should I be happy, sad
>> or indifferent?
>>
>> Frank K0BRA
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