Cell Tower Gets Poor Reception in Glendale

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• Zooooom Thursday, Jan 8 at 6:36 PM FLAG COMMENT No one wants to live near these thing and that most definitely affects property values. Given all the facts and fully understanding the tradeoffs, most do not want cell antennas in residential areas even if it means giving up cell coverage. but many are realizing this is not even about traditional cell phone coverage but about new and future services T-Mobile hopes to market - broadband internet/video/tv, etc.. We don't need these services delivered via antennas next to homes when we can get it better via fiber optic cable, DSL, satellite and other methods that would make a lot more sense. Just like the car industry (they had to be forced to install blinkers and seat belts), this industry must be regulated and forced to provide technology in the safest way possible or they will do it the cheapest, fastest way possible. And how is that a private, foreign company like T-Mobile have public right of way? since when are they a public utility? Maybe our communications infrastructure should be, though. ... MORE >
• DML Thursday, Jan 8 at 9:51 AM FLAG COMMENT The residents are overreacting. There are thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of cell towers in this country and I have yet to hear about a death related to transmission to/from a tower. The neighbors would complain even more if there were no cell coverage in their neighborhood. You have to take the good with the bad folks...deal with it.The residents are overreacting. There are thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of cell towers in this country and I have yet to hear about a death related to transmission to/from a tower. The neighbors would complain even more if there were no cell coverage in their neighborhood. You have to take the good with the bad folks...deal with it.
• Chris Thursday, Jan 8 at 8:43 AM FLAG COMMENT The residents aren't so worried about camoflage. Primary concern is EMF/RF energy causing health concerns [Note: Federal law prohibits barring construction of cellphone towers on this basis]. Secondly is property value reduction. The biggest glaring error in the whole matter is that the telecommunications provider tried to as inocuously as possible erect the tower, by skirting typical protocol, not advising the neighborhood of the construction, and claiming due diligence on the matter - which the facts have proven untrue to both the neighborhood and the city council. Council voted 5-0 for a 45 day injunction for both new cellphone construction and co-location on existing equipment (adding a different company's cell transmitter/repeater) in the city. Ultimately, considering "where there's smoke, there's fire," something must be bad about this kind of equipment, otherwise the installation would have been less surreptitious, more above-board. ... MORE >
• Happened too me Thursday, Jan 8 at 7:45 AM FLAG COMMENT There are ways to cover up the tower. They can put greenery around it to look like another tree. They have them through out Altadena, Ca area.There are ways to cover up the tower. They can put greenery around it to look like another tree. They have them through out Altadena, Ca area.

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