October 29, 2003

Neighbors on Cell Tower Plan: Not in Your Backyard, Either

A Connecticut resident deciding to put up a cellphone tower (as a paid service from the wireless phone company) that is about 10 stories tall in his backyard, irks neighbors, according to a story in the New York Times.

Probably not the last of feuding-neighbors-stories we will hear about, as according to Larry McDonnell, a spokesman for Sprint, as people increasingly expect to use mobile phones inside their homes, "the only way to do that is start to have radio antennas close to people's homes."

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