AT&T and Verizon install free towers for McCain

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited October 2008 in Science & Tech
Apparently it's John McCain day with the news that both AT&T and Verizon Wireless have installed free portable cellular towers on one of the McCain estates. This project superceded a nixed plan to erect a stationary tower to improve coverage in the McCain neck of the woods. While the notion of US telecom groveling before politicians is not new (but certainly worthy of a raised brow), the conflict... Continue reading

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  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    The story is here:
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/10/exclusive_verizon_gave_cell_to.html
    Thrax wrote:
    Apparently all it takes to get free cellular equipment is a chance at the presidential office and corporate belief that the price of your dignity is $3.5 million.

    The Secret Service's request for improved telecommunications in the area has nothing to do with it :p
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    It doesn't, as Verizon was already in the process of a complicated and tremendously expensive surveying and cost-analysis process for the installation of equipment. Until environmentalists raised high hell and got the project nixed, it was just weeks away from laying infrastructure after consulting with dozens of rights, cultural and financial institutions to verify the validity and the site.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    also, the att tower wasn't requested by the sekrit service.
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