Court: Calif. cities cannot block cell antennas over aesthetics

01-18-2006, 08:35 AM

Some good news for the carriers, bad news for neighbors trying to block
cell towers in their neighborhoods.

"http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13648225.htm"

01-18-2006, 11:29 AM

SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
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> Some good news for the carriers, bad news for neighbors trying to
> block cell towers in their neighborhoods.
>
> "http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13648225
> .htm"
>

Wow...now you can turn that unused back yard space into free cellular
phones for the whole family and your own cell site paying those big land
use fees to you!

I have a friend who has a cell tower on his farm that did just that. His
farm borders the interstate and they pay him a very nice yearly fee and
provide his whole family with cellphones and service with no time limits as
part of the sweet deal....

01-18-2006, 12:49 PM

Larry wrote:
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
> news:43ce5236$0$95985$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
>
>
>>Some good news for the carriers, bad news for neighbors trying to
>>block cell towers in their neighborhoods.
>>
>>"http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13648225
>>.htm"
>>
>
>
> Wow...now you can turn that unused back yard space into free cellular
> phones for the whole family and your own cell site paying those big land
> use fees to you!
>
> I have a friend who has a cell tower on his farm that did just that. His
> farm borders the interstate and they pay him a very nice yearly fee and
> provide his whole family with cellphones and service with no time limits as
> part of the sweet deal....
>

Probably tmobile, my buddy owns a building for his business and when
tmobile came into the area they made a deal with him which included free
phones. The only problem is that they have such a poor network it is
really difficult to get any value from the deal. Because of that he
uses VZW and the tmobile phones go largely unused. From other people I
know the better carriers don't offer such deals and don't pay the huge
rents that have become urban legends.

01-18-2006, 01:17 PM

Isn't it interesting that it is usually the NIMBYs that call customer
support and complain about poor cell phone coverage. This is a major victory
for all call phone providers.

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> Some good news for the carriers, bad news for neighbors trying to block
> cell towers in their neighborhoods.
>
> "http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13648225.htm"

01-18-2006, 01:23 PM

What cellular company is hosted on the farm cell tower?

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
> news:43ce5236$0$95985$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
>
>> Some good news for the carriers, bad news for neighbors trying to
>> block cell towers in their neighborhoods.
>>
>> "http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13648225
>> .htm"
>>
>
> Wow...now you can turn that unused back yard space into free cellular
> phones for the whole family and your own cell site paying those big land
> use fees to you!
>
> I have a friend who has a cell tower on his farm that did just that. His
> farm borders the interstate and they pay him a very nice yearly fee and
> provide his whole family with cellphones and service with no time limits
> as
> part of the sweet deal....
>

01-18-2006, 01:28 PM

>
> Wow...now you can turn that unused back yard space into free cellular
> phones for the whole family and your own cell site paying those big land
> use fees to you!
>
> I have a friend who has a cell tower on his farm that did just that. His
> farm borders the interstate and they pay him a very nice yearly fee and
> provide his whole family with cellphones and service with no time limits
> as
> part of the sweet deal....
>

I'd love to. Where do I sign up? Our house is close enough to an
interstate that it actually would fill a dead spot or two, if they put a
tower in our back yard. There's plenty of room back there, too. We'd STILL
have a huge back yard.

-Dave

01-18-2006, 01:28 PM

George wrote:

> Probably tmobile, my buddy owns a building for his business and when
> tmobile came into the area they made a deal with him which included free
> phones. The only problem is that they have such a poor network it is
> really difficult to get any value from the deal.

Perhaps in your area - I don't have that problem with T-Mo where I live.

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01-19-2006, 12:20 AM

George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:G4qdndMKef-rEFPeRVn-
pw@adelphia.com:

> Probably tmobile, my buddy owns a building for his business and when
> tmobile came into the area they made a deal with him which included free
> phones. The only problem is that they have such a poor network it is
> really difficult to get any value from the deal. Because of that he
> uses VZW and the tmobile phones go largely unused. From other people I
> know the better carriers don't offer such deals and don't pay the huge
> rents that have become urban legends.
>
>

No, this deal goes back into the AMPS bagphone days. He's been renting
space to them for a long time...(c;

01-19-2006, 12:21 AM

"Mij Adyaw" <mij@spam.com> wrote in news:kzwzf.14128$V.13039@fed1read04:

> What cellular company is hosted on the farm cell tower?
>

I'm not really sure, now. There are 3 candelabras of antennas up there,
now. It used to be Cellular One back in the AMPS days.

01-19-2006, 07:30 AM

It's interesting that California does not allow this, it happens often in
Michigan.

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>
>
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