Speaker calls for tower climbers to unite against corporate leadership
A threatening video is circulating in tower climber groups on Facebook claiming to be from infamous hacker group, Anonymous, which appears to be calling for tower climbers to unionize and threatens corporate ownership and trade...
Lawsuits over 2014 tower collapse continue
Two weeks ago RCR Wireless News reported that a lawsuit had been filed by the family of a firefighter who died in an attempted rescue from a 2014 cell tower collapse in West Virginia. This was apparently just the beginning,...
The National Association of Tower Erectors has submitted comments to OSHA about communication tower safety.
OSHA made a formal request for information from NATE to get its hands on information that NATE has collected from tower workers, wireless carriers, engineering and construction management firms, tower owners, and...
Verizon towers to function as air traffic control
NASA has reached out to the nation's largest wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless, entering an agreement to conduct drone tracking research using the carrier's cell towers. According to The Guardian, the deal was signed last year, but has only...
Officials order tower service restored
Indian officials aren’t backing down after the recent terror attacks on their mobile infrastructure.
High-level Indian officials have ordered the Indian Army and CRPF, along with state police, to restore mobile service in the Kashmir Valley in spite of multiple attacks...
Terrorists are trying to put a stop to mobile networks in India, and they are using deadly force to do it.
Two civilian tower workers were killed and three more were injured in multiple attacks on mobile infrastructure in North Kashmir and Srinagar. As a...
Lawsuit names SBA Communications, others as defendants
In February 2014 a tower in Clarksburg, W.Va., collapsed, killing two tower climbers and injuring others. The stress of the collapse caused stress on guy wires connecting the tower to a nearby tower which also collapsed, killing one firefighter,...
Bear climbs tower for eggs
We're all doomed. The large hairy killing machines known as bears are now bringing their endless appetites off the ground and into the skies. O.F. Mossberg & Sons captured this surprising video of a bear that managed to climb an electrical tower to...
Wade Sarver, a prominent blogger who writes about the wireless industry, had some strong words for tower climbers who have not filled out the OSHA RFI safety survey.
Sarver posted the article entitled “Do you want to improve tower climber safety? Apparently not!” in many...
An Indian parliamentary panel is asking the country's Environment Ministry to comprehensively look into the effects of cell tower radiation on humans and animals, saying it is of "great concern."
The committee on Demands for Grants, which is part of the Indian Ministry of Finance, ...
Cell towers that stalk?
Anyone who reads this weekly segment with regularity knows how contentious an issue tower placement is. This week Verizon is back at it again causing a family in Tarzana, Calif., grief over tower placement. But what makes this one stand out amongst the...
Crown Castle said today that it has agreed to sell its 1,800 Australian towers to a consortium of investors led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. The sale price is roughly $1.6 billion, and Crown Castle expects to net about $1.3 billion since it...
Freestanding cell towers now need to withstand an earthquake and keep working
Los Angeles city leaders last week took steps to ensure that area cell towers are prepared to not only stand in the event of a major earthquake but also continue working after a...
AT&T, Verizon get litigious over towers
The biggest wireless companies in the world are taking small towns and businesses to court on a seemingly increasing basis. It has all the makings of "David vs. Goliath" archetypes, but in this day and age does David have powerful...
Cell towers becoming obsolete?
CNBC spoke with the founder of Parallel Wireless at the Founders Forum Smart Nation Singapore conference, who informed the major media outlet that he believes cell towers will soon become obsolete. He believes that individual cellphones will become the cell tower...
Thefts include New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island
Spring is in the air. The birds are chirping, the weather is beautiful and apparently cell towers look like trees bearing valuable fruit for those criminals ambitious enough. Three different sets of criminals have been thieving from cell towers in...
Police reports indicate that early this morning a man in Fontana, Calif., jumped from a cell tower off of Highway 210, ending his own life. A witness claims to have seen a man climbing up the cell tower around 6:38 a.m. Once near the...
Cell tower would be 75-feet tall, disguised as evergreen tree
AT&T wants to build a 75-foot-tall cellphone tower adjacent to a Eugene, Ore., church, but local residents and officials are pushing back against the carrier’s capital ambitions.
The wrangling has been going on four weeks and involves...
OSHA seeks public comment
Earlier this week the Occupational Safety and Health Administration released a statement asking for public comment on best practices for tower climbers and reducing the number of accidents. According to the OSHA statement:
OSHA is aware of employee safety risks in communication tower...
Thai villagers to force True Corp. to take down tower
Residents of Khiriwong, a subdistrict of Krabi in Thailand, voted in an April 10 referendum to require True Corp. to remove an area cell tower due to fears of radiation.
A report in the Bangkok Post also notes...
OSHA seeks public comment on how to reduce accidents at tower sites
Federal safety regulators are seeking public input on how to best protect the men and women who work on telecommunications towers from injury or incident.
Published on April 15, the Occupational Safety and Health...
Massapequa Park may be unable to combat DAS install
The mayor of Massapequa Park, N.J., said that despite opposition from residents and municipal staff, there may not be any way to derail Crown Castle's plans to install a distributed antenna system node.
Residents turned out to...
An attempt by Verizon Wireless to build a 150-foot cell tower in a residential neighborhood in Bernardsville, N.J., has been shot down by an appellate court.
The decision was a hard fought victory for residents. From May 2010 to December 2011, the New Jersey borough’s...
Tornado severely damages KOMA tower
It may not be a cell tower, but the legendary KOMA communications towers looms large in the minds of those in the industry. A tornado wreaked havoc last last month on the Oklahoma-located KOMA tower, causing massive structural damage. Engineers investigated...
