MORRISTOWN, N.J.—Edward and Kelcey, a design and engineering firm that maintains 6,000 cell sites in the northeastern United States, is assisting in returning wireless phone service to normal at the site of what was the World Trade Center in New York.
Serving as part of the AT&T Wireless recovery team, Edward and Kelcey brought in several cell sites on wheels, or COWs, to temporarily replace damaged or destroyed permanently installed cell sites. “The first goal of the team was to position the COWs efficiently to allow local cellular operation recovery at Ground Zero,” explained Tom Smith, an executive from the firm. “We also used portable listening devices to pick up any 911 calls coming from the wreckage.”
