Ball Wireless Communications Products introduced two new antenna products based on its AirBASE air dielectric technology.The DualBASE dual-band base station antenna allows wireless carriers to use one antenna to provide service in two frequency bands, which could ease zoning approval issues by reducing the...
WASHINGTON-The National Park Service is weighing in on antenna-siting cases on land adjacent to its parks.In Cape Cod, Mass., Park Service officials commented a tower proposal probably won't be a problem, but did not comment on what would happen if the tower turns out...
WASHINGTON-People flying New Year's Eve 1999 should wonder if their airplanes will be able to navigate safely if the pilots cannot see wireless antenna facilities-especially 200-foot towers.If the millennium bug strikes the electric power grid, the lighting on antenna towers is likely to fail.If...
So, you want to build a wireless telecommunications network. Then you must be thinking about how to leverage the infrastructures of existing cellular and PCS systems. After all, you figure, the more collocating you do, the sooner your system is on the air.But what...
Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill a gap in its coverage.This is just one example of the extremes companies will...
Now that the nation's top wireless carrier and its second-largest cable TV company have announced plans to merge, industry watchers are speculating about how the companies might converge their networks.Dan Youmans, a spokesman for AT&T Wireless Services Inc., said it is too soon to...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association remains concerned proposed guidelines for siting wireless antenna on National Park Service lands will not adequately protect sensitive commercial information about wireless carriers' future business plans, CTIA said in comments filed with the NPS recently.CTIA "vehemently opposes disclosure of...
Adler Engineering Inc. has won a contract with the state of New Jersey to evaluate all state-owned property for wireless antenna siting and assist in marketing viable sites to carriers.Adler Engineering, headquartered in Barrington, N.J., provides site design, surveying, environmental investigation and structural engineering...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Postal Service and UniSite Inc. are planning a major rollout of huge flagpole antennas in the East and Midwest, a development representing a technological breakthrough in antenna co-location technology and aesthetics that will test the willingness of communities to embrace 150-foot structures...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp., a developer of build-to-suit wireless antenna sites, closed on the sale of $269 million in principal amount of 12-percent senior discount notes to mature in 2008, generating gross proceeds of $150 million.Proceeds of the sale, which was underwritten by...
WASHINGTON-Key House and Senate lawmakers last week signaled plans to address antenna siting moratoria in 911 legislation this year, setting up a showdown with competing bills in what appears to be a retreat by the wireless industry from its unsuccessful campaign to win sweeping...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have aligned to produce a guide to help federal land managers work with the wireless industry in placing antennas on government lands.Siting Wireless Antennas: An Introduction was discussed by the two federal...
WASHINGTON-Having failed to secure antenna siting moratoria relief from Congress, the wireless telecom industry now faces the bitter prospect of legislation to limit federal intrusion into local zoning matters along with an unwanted battle with powerful organized labor.Warnings by Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)...
BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained to call the number to gain immediate access to someone who may or may not be able to help. Although...
WASHINGTON-Following a nearly two-year-old presidential memorandum, a notice of inquiry and several industry forums held earlier this year, the General Services Administration instituted rules June 11 governing the placement of commercial wireless antenna sites on government lands.Published in the Federal Register June 16, the...
WASHINGTON-The head of the wireless industry's cancer research project last week cautioned against reading too much into preliminary findings from a new Finnish study that mobile phones are free of health risks.Dr. George L. Carlo, chairman of Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., said that while...
WASHINGTON-A freshman Florida congressman concerned with constituent complaints about wireless tower proliferation is considering legislation to overturn the antenna siting provision of the 1996 telecom act."I am ... researching the possibility of developing legislation which repeals the provision prohibiting local authorities from taking health...
WASHINGTON-National League of Cities President Mark Schwartz vowed last week to defy federal regulatory and wireless industry efforts to pre-empt local regulation of wireless antenna siting and to litigate the issue if necessary."Zoning and land use is a local government issue," Schwartz told RCR...
SAN FRANCISCO-More than 230,000 square feet of exhibit space already has been leased for next year's Wireless '98 industry trade show-hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in Atlanta-almost as much space as was used in this year's event.Wireless '97 attracted 20,000 to 21,000...
The free-trade global telecom pact inked in Geneva two weeks ago represents the emergence of commerce as a powerful new diplomatic tool the United States will employ to export a broad range of democratic ideals and to advance strategic geopolitical goals abroad.What makes the...
Fear is a powerful emotion. It keeps people behind locked doors. It makes them give up their chance to find the love of their lives. It keeps them from pursuing their dreams and reaching their potential.When you consider the incredible impact fear has in...
This is the fourth installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. Six hundred households were surveyed. The margin of error associated with the results...
This is the third installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. This article explores public attitudes on tower siting and NIMBY (Not In My...
This exclusive RCR five-part series highlights the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. Six hundred households were surveyed. The margin of error associated with the results is 4 percent.The Wireless ParadoxLove me,...
