Industry Needs to Build More Attractive Towers, Marcus Says
The wireless industry must take responsibility for designing more attractive cellsites, Marcus Spectrum Solutions filed in FCC docket 17-79. The firm questioned whether there's a “serious culture problem” in the cellular industry that keeps it from offering more attractive facilities.…
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“While the industry has shown itself capable of designing and installing very neat small base stations, it also is installing quite messy ones on utility poles even in the present era of local government oversight,” Marcus said in the Tuesday filing. “We support limiting such oversight, but unless the industry changes its culture on this issue there is a real risk of a grass root reaction to messy construction near eye level in 1000s of neighborhoods across the country.”