Crown Castle

[Patrick Gray]

Folks,

    Here's an interesting article on small-cell architecture:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/special-reports/microcells-odas-and-picocells-small-cell-architecture-stem-wireless-data-de

Pat KF4MTV

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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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