more on Menino maps cellphone gaps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joe Pistritto <jcp () jcphome com>
Date: July 16, 2005 10:56:14 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Menino maps cellphone gaps


The City of Los Altos, here in Sillycon Valley, has this problem  
too.  They dont let cell carriers put up towers in Los Altos, which  
unfortunately includes terrain features we call "hills" that separate  
it from towers in more cell-friendly localities.   Which means no  
matter what carrier you have, you'll drop somewhere in Los Altos  
(which isnt really that big a town, and it's a *nice* town, just not  
for cellphones).

  -jcp-

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
To: "Ip ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 3:51 PM
Subject: [IP] more on Menino maps cellphone gaps



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> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com>
> Date: July 16, 2005 5:55:26 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Menino maps cellphone gaps
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> > By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff  |  July 15, 2005
> >
> > It is an aggravation of the age, the conversation-stopper that seems
> > always to include the phrase, ''You're breaking up." Cellphone dead
> > zones have irritated many, but recently they have really annoyed
> > Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who says his cellphone conversations get cut
> > off day after day as he traverses the city's neighborhoods.
> >
> > The low-tech, urban mechanic mayor is fed up, he says, and there's no
> > acceptable explanation why a city like Boston should have so many
> > pockets of fog.
>
> I heard Mr. Menino interviewed on NPR yesterday. Fascinatingly, he is
> very upset with the mobile carriers for dead spots, but he is against
> leasing city poletops to them, and against having them put up towers
> in places where he considers them to be aesthetically unpleasing. He
> wants them to solve the problem "some other way".
>
> One therefore wonders how he expects the carriers to fix the problem,
> since he doesn't want to let them build more base stations. Perhaps
> with magic. Politicians often seem to believe that engineers have
> magical mechanisms that we're just too stubborn or pigheaded to
> use....
>
>    For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
>    public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
>                 --Richard P. Feynman, in his Rogers Commision Report
>
> Perry
>
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