Tag: CELLTOWER

Watch these guys (who are, by any measure, braver than you are) free-climb a 1,768-foot broadcasting tower (just shy of the height of the Sears Willis Tower, if you count its antennas) after the jump. Apparently, OSHA lets workers climb without lines because those "safety" ropes just get in the damn way. Best/worst job ever? We're a bit nauseous now. ...

Does God like cell phones? For a couple of churches in the U.S., religious iconography has has been updated with high-tech function, and that sends quite a message. Rolling Hills Moravian Church in Longwood, Florida partnered with T-Mobile last month to propose a cross-shaped cell phone tower, although we gather that it's still under debate by the county. Even more recently, St. Gregory's ...

Members of America's Wireless industry are working with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to authorize the construction of new cell phone towers that won't slaughter millions of migrating birds every year. They are under pressure to do so because the towers currently sprawled across the U.S., well, do kill millions of birds (between four and five million birds, according to ...

In what sounds a little like a scene out of a certain Mel Gibson movie, an angry Australian has used an armored car to run rampage across the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The driver of the APC (armored personal carrier), one John Patterson, had accused mobile phone company Telstra, his former employer, of causing him brain damage thanks to radiation from the company's towers. He had filed a ...