Cool Cell phone plan evaluator from Wall Street Journal

Here is a great little tool for comparing the most recent cell phone plans I just found... from the Wall Street Journal....  http://graphics.wsj.com/PhonePlan/?mg=inert-wsj

Cool video of a cell phone tower climb.

I thought this is good video of a climb up a cell tower by a tower climber.

DAS Antenna and equipment... Marthas Vineyard Massachusetts

Antenna and equipment on a pole on Marthas Vineyard in the town of Aquinnah. I noticed my AT&T service was excellent, and noticed the antennas almost immediately while driving. I snapped this picture last year while on-island, and remembered after a recent trip. An article from MV Times on the system.

Interesting example of MetroPCS meeting with town zoning board.

I have found a number of town meeting/ selectman/ Zoning Board meeting minutes that wireless carries have to go to in order to win town approval to build or add onto an existing site. It usually gives some advance info on where local sites will be built (and where I can keep an eye out to get some photos!).
In this example, from the town of Methuen, Mass Zoning Board, there is some expanded

TMobile Continues New England Build

TMobile continues their build in New England, with a solid coverage map now thruout Eastern Mass. Most new sites I see being built (and have photos that I am preparing to update on my cellulartower.com site)are TMobile sites. Usually, they have been building sites at 2 or 3 times the pace of other carriers (just by my observations). I don't have them as a carrier, but I assume that customers

MetroPCS launches Boston Service!

MetroPCS has finally launched their Boston service after approximately a one year build out. By using their web sites coverage finder, it looks like the current covered area is primarily inside Rte 495, with mainly the major routes covered, as well as the major population centers. If you live in the outskirts of a town in the suburbs, you are probably out of luck for getting a signal. It reminds

Cellular coverage during inaugeration!

I meant to write this a few days ago, but here it is a few days after the inauguration and I'm just getting to it now. There was some great coverage about the work all the major providers in DC were doing, and the build up to make sure calls, texts , and photos were going to go thru OK. It looks like most of the providers used COW and COLTs to provide additional coverage, and with the exception