Tower Sites and their associated expenses

Who even thinks of tower sites anyway?  Most people don't.   But, us in the wireless business know what it takes to get radio signals from one place to the other.   And tower sites play a key role in making things like that happen efficiently.

I was in a county council meeting one evening several years ago and was told that everyone wanted to get more cellular phone coverage out in the rural country.   The conversation continued and I moved us to the subject to tower sites.   You would have thought I was rude or something, the way they reacted to that conversation about towers.   But, from their perspective they just wanted cellular coverage and thought somehow coverage just happened and that nothing really big had to be done.   Cellular coverage was just supposed to "happen."   The consensus among the audience seemed to be that we all drive around with telephone connections plugged into our automobile tail pipes and that any additional thoughts about how the radio signal gets there are discounted.   A lot was said about "visual pollution" and "I don't want that thing in my back yard" and other stuff like that.   Well, no one wants towers in their back yard, but everyone wants cellular coverage.   Mobile radio & cellular service engineering, necessitates that something must give in order to achieve everyones needs.
A little later the conversation lead to satellite coverage and why couldn't we just use those ominous things floating around in space for everything wireless.   Boy, that's a whole new conversation there for sure.
To put some wraps on this thought process I once heard from a truck driver that if you eat it, wear it or otherwise use it, a truck brought it.   That makes sense and is believable once you think about it.   Well, to further that thought towards our topic, if you talk on it, look at it or otherwise use it via wireless, a tower brought it to you.   That's right, somewhere in the path a tower probably brought it to you.   That's not to mean that towers are the only things wireless or comprise all the support you have.   But, they are important, very important.
We'll get into more details later when we shall discuss some of the mechanics of vertical real estate......towers
Until later.........