SIGINT planes vs. radioisotope mapping
Harmon Seaver
hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Fri Jun 6 05:41:20 PDT 2003
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:41:29AM -0400, Dave Emery wrote:
> Very little travels by microwave anymore in the CONUS either
> (maybe a couple of percent or less of wireline telephone calls do at any
> point, perhaps even less by now - mostly to backward places where
> stringing fiber is hard or uneconomical). Most of the old AT&T microwave
> towers that once dotted hilltops across the country have been shut down
> and sold to cell operators or even private citizens seeking a remote
> location for a cabin - and most of this shutdown happened by the late
> 80s in fact. Very very few of the towers still in existence transmit
> any traffic any more or ever could again.
>
Interesting, I wasn't aware those were deactivated. I wonder if tower space
on them can be rented. OTOH, there are a lot of rural ISPs who are using
wireless to provide net access to rural homes and businesses. Those old
microwave towers would be great for that.
--
Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com
More information about the Testlist
mailing list