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Yellowstone Park Develops Wireless Plan Amid Controversy
Yellowstone National Park will soon be blanketed with coverage from cell phone towers, wireless internet service, and two-way radio, as well as television and AM/FM radio signals under a plan being written by the telecommunications industry and park officials, according to agency records recently released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
The March 31, 2005 meeting had representatives from Sprint, Verizon, Qwest, Western Wireless (now Alltel) and other companies conferring with Yellowstone park officials and concessionaires. The purpose of the meeting was to develop a “Wireless Telecommunications Plan” for the p...
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I’ve got a brilliant idea, if they don’t want to be disturbed by their cell phone while in the park, then maybe they can leave their cell phone at home. But instead of such a common sense solution, these a-holes would rather put restrictions on all the rest of us.