San Diego County Supervisors order cell-tower moratorium

[larry]

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005...6_478_2_05.txt

[ZaphodB]

ing heads.

Since their so-precious NIMBY law got struck down, now all of a sudden they need to think about this? I think Sprint is right -- this is retaliation.

[larry]

This is war and Sprint has never backed down from anyone. Here's a few notable cases Sprint has won in the past 5 years:

Westminster
Rancho Palos Verdes
Laguna Beach
Del Mar
La Mesa
Berkeley
Malibu
La Canada Flintridge

They've lost:

San Marcos
Rancho Santa Fe

[Gman]

This is war and Sprint has never backed down from anyone. Here's a few notable cases Sprint has won in the past 5 years:

Westminster
Rancho Palos Verdes
Laguna Beach
Del Mar
La Mesa
Berkeley
Malibu
La Canada Flintridge

They've lost:

San Marcos
Rancho Santa Fe

I'm sure the county's lawyers will advise the county government to tread carefully in this matter or risk further litigation.

[CellGeek]

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005...6_478_2_05.txt

The same damn NIMBYs probably call customer support wondering why their cell phones drop calls and do not provide good service.

[larry]

The same damn NIMBYs probably call customer support wondering why their cell phones drop calls and do not provide good service.

Of course they do.

[BKKloppenborg]

damn i remember when Sprint tired to get a Tower in La Mesa i live here and it was ugly Damn La mesa City councial is a pain in the belive me i had to deal with them more then once i was happy when Sprint won...

[Gman]

damn i remember when Sprint tired to get a Tower in La Mesa i live here and it was ugly Damn La mesa City councial is a pain in the belive me i had to deal with them more then once i was happy when Sprint won...

The interesting thing here now will be watching for site consolidation/optimization with the Nextel locations. I'd imagine there will be alot of permits being applied for but they should be reasonably fast (as far as government permits go) because I think colocations are a shorter process.

G.

[larry]

Yes co-locations are often a shorter process but not always. Believe it or not some cities have the same process for co-location as they do for new sites.

[cryogenic]

jerks... I totally agree that they're the same idiots that whine to their carrier about bad coverage and dropped calls, yet refuse to allow more towers to be built in their town because they're an "eyesore". I don't consider them to be an eyesore at all. Heck, I love seeing a cell tower since it means that my chances of getting good signal are better. We have towers strewn about the countryside here and nobody complains in the least. It's great.