On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:41:05 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <4556fa41$0$88695$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Todd Allcock wrote:
>
>> (I realize it's not a frequency thing, I just find it funny that the
>> nation's two largest carriers can't get a signal to my neighborhood but
>> everyone else does...)
>
>When Cingular was 1900 MHz only in my area, they were trying to put in a
>tower near my house. About five years later, T-Mobile now has the site,
>and they still have been turned down by the city to install a tower.
>Contrary to what the carriers try to tell planning commissions, there is
>no requirement to approve a tower, but you can't not approve it for the
>wrong reasons, it has to be the right reasons.

Wrong on both counts. Take the time to actually read Section 704 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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