Saturday, December 12, 2015

Everybody Wants Better Cell Service; Nobody Ever Wants Cell Towers

Mobile service providers globally face one problem never seems to go away: local opposition to new mobile towers. This “not in my backyard” problem applies in India, where mobile operators say they are hampered by local rules about getting up new cell sites and running quickly, as well as in the United States, where Sprint raises the same issue to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

To be sure, Sprint is equally concerned about maintaining reasonably-priced “special access” circuits used for backhaul of traffic to its towers, something that is an issue as the service providers supplying capacity move to IP-based optical facilities. e

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