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legal ad for tower in city

MDziatkowicz

Aug 2, 2006, 12:15 AM
Verizon Wireless just posted a legal ad for a request to place an antenna on electrical transmission tower in my city today. How long will it take before service can go live in my city? I live in weirton,wv by the way. Also how risky is that, placing a cell antenna on a electical tower and will that avoid the legal hassle of most city antenna codes?
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dave73

Aug 2, 2006, 1:50 AM
MDziatkowicz said:
Verizon Wireless just posted a legal ad for a request to place an antenna on electrical transmission tower in my city today. How long will it take before service can go live in my city? I live in weirton,wv by the way. Also how risky is that, placing a cell antenna on a electical tower and will that avoid the legal hassle of most city antenna codes?


I don't know how long it takes to get a tower up and running, but T-Mobile has their antennas on a few of the NIPSCO towers in my area. As long as it's a monopole type, like what T-Mobile has done with putting their antennas up, I doubt it's difficult at all. It's just placed on the lower end of the pole. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Ver...
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MDziatkowicz

Aug 2, 2006, 10:29 AM
will these antennas have vcast and all of the other new features on them? Also does this mean I will have local numbers available soon if this gets approved? How can I tell if I will have local numbers?
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alejandro

Aug 2, 2006, 5:27 PM
It's a speculatative question so I can only speculate the answer will be no, you are in the middle of nowhere, not anywhere near a metro area. Doesn't alltel already own that area?
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Want_New_Phone

Aug 2, 2006, 5:58 PM
He's not in the middle of nowhere. He's only about 25 mile from Pittsburgh and only a couple miles from the PA line. There is nowhere in the country with better VZW coverage than Southwestern PA.
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