[ale] OT: Sprint bringing WiMax to Arlanta this year

[William Fragakis]

149 towers 927 antennae

no wonder my ears always are ringing.

-wf
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 12:40 -0400, PairOfTwins wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> PairOfTwins wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Sean:
> >>>
> >>> A few weeks ago Clear gave me a demo of their wireless service (
> >>> Clearwire + Sprint = Clear ) in a coffeeshop.  6 mbits on the speed
> >>> test.  They're planning to "paint the town green" with their ad blitz.
> >>>
> >>>  From http://www.antennasearch.com/ I can count Clearwire antennas
> >>> located on 14 towers within 4 miles of home.  Looks like they're
> >>> blanketing the city, but not putting up their own towers.  I'm wondering
> >>> whether that loud buzzing in my ears, which began in early February, is
> >>> in any way related to the addition of formerly unused spectrum going
> >>> live, on top of AM radio, FM radio, analog TV, digital TV, and cell
> >>> phone radiation.  When WiMAX was deployed in Sweden, an uptick in ER
> >>> visits prompted the government to investigate...
> >>>       
> >> Apparently the address field doesn't like a period, as in 'Dr.'  It kept
> >> returning invalid data.  Pretty stupid if you ask me...  Finally got a
> >> successful search and it shows 60 towers and 162 antennas within 4 miles.
> >>
> >>     
> > I win! 279 antennas within 4 miles of my house.
> >   
> 107 Towers with 445 Antennas from our Northlake address.  I was ONLY 
> counting towers with Clearwire antennas.  If electrosmog is the prize, 
> I'm in the lead.
> 
> Tom
> 
> >
> >
> >   
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