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San Francisco Might Allow Public to Block Ugly Cell Towers

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Good... Save your money!!

Mentat

Aug 12, 2010, 4:45 PM
To all Carriers,

Stop building/fixing towers in San Fransisco, take that money you would use fighting for towers and save that money to roll out 4G everywhere BUT San Francisco. Take all cellphone towers down and force the citizens there to purchase microcells (I just got one its great). That way you would make money off the hardware AND not have to have any maintenance fees or legal fees associated with building cellphone towers in a city that doesn't want any.

Let me reiterate who I am. I do not work nor have I ever worked for a cellphone company. I purchased an iPhone and it opened my eyes to the world of cellphone technology.
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flip mode

Aug 12, 2010, 5:04 PM
I purchased an iPhone and it opened my eyes to the world of cellphone technology.


lol @ Mentat....you sould like my cousin when he got his iPhone 4 🤣
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Scribed3d

Aug 12, 2010, 5:14 PM
This actually already happens in many affluent parts of the country. However, unlike this San Francisco proposition, they don't come out and make it a blatant law. In their cases, the proposed cell tower gets "re-zoned" indefinitely until the carrier practically has to give up its cause. Parts of Southern Florida are infamous for this, for example.

I agree with you, though. The whole, "Not In My Back Yard" stance is rather pathetic. I can understand a limitation from throwing up a standard metal tower frame in the middle of a public parksite, in San Francisco a good example is Golden Gate Park, but in the meat of the city? *just shakes head*

what I would like to see is the Federal reaction. How is Congress and the FCC going to h...
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Mentat

Aug 12, 2010, 5:33 PM
we lose no matter what, either taxpayers are going to foot the bill AND/OR wireless subscribers are going to foot the bill. Carriers should shut off service there until they get the hint
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Slammer

Aug 12, 2010, 6:21 PM
The state of New York has the Adirondack State Park. Before the park commission banned further cell sites, the old Bell infrastructure was grandfathered in. Service is very spotty with hundreds and hundreds of miles uncovered with cell service. The point of the ban, is solely based on aesthetics. That want to preserve the beauty of the park.

However, just a little south of the park lies Lake George. At the time, Nextel spent over a million dollars to construct an experimental tower to resemble a pine tree. They branded it "Frankenpine".

Several serious and fatal injuries in the mountains with no one to call due to lack of service, has caused the commission to re-evaluate the ban and possibly looking at towers disguised as pine trees. ...
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wdfichtel

Aug 13, 2010, 8:41 AM
Slammer said:
At the time, Nextel spent over a million dollars to construct an experimental tower to resemble a pine tree. They branded it "Frankenpine".


T-Mobile has been very good about using camoflage to hide towers - I know they've used trees as well as water towers. Not sure what else off the top of my head thanks to the firewalls at work... but if they can do it, anyone can.
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misschris

Aug 13, 2010, 9:33 AM
And IMO, those tree towers are far uglier than regular ones!

Why is it that electricity and landline stuff is ok, but cell phone towers need to be out of sight? Unreal.
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Versed

Aug 14, 2010, 10:27 PM
No towers, no iPhones, no Droids (they banned blackberrys because Sara Palin had one). No service, oh the humanity!
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Versed

Aug 12, 2010, 6:55 PM
These NIMBY retards are not only in SF, but all over. Here they bitch about cell towers, then bitch about poor service, they bitch about power outages on the barrier islands, then bitch when the power companies want to run new lines. I don't believe that negotiations over where a tower should be placed, or the towns or cites shouldn't have a say. But blanket bans is another subject.
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Da_Bonehead

Aug 13, 2010, 1:55 PM
I have seen, while living in Colorado, Cell towers being diguised to look like trees. Very Tall Trees, but trees none the less.
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