Below is an article about AT&T using DAS to improve cellular reception at Boston`s TD Garden.  Roy Bennett from Antenna Management recently visited BC Place in Vancouver to view their cellular antenna installations. Stadiums pose a fairly unique challenge in terms of cellular network design – huge amounts of concrete, huge numbers of people attempting to use [...]

Canadian cell companies need more cellular antennas to keep up demand, but are bottlenecked by the limitations of the cellular frequencies they use. A new scrambler is on to control spectrum in the 700 MHz band (old TV channels 51 to 62). This fall the CRTC spectrum auction is expected to be pretty hot. In [...]

According to analysts at IDC and ComScore the smartphone industry is expected to grow fifty percent by the end of 2011. This itself is a drop from the seventy four percent growth of last year, but will still see with vendors shipping four hundred and seventy-two million smartphones in contrast to the three hundred and two [...]

There is a fascinating dynamic tension between wireless telephone service providers and the governments that regulate their activities — particularly local governments that find themselves up close and personal with voters. Right now both Rogers and Telus are proposing new cell tower sites in response to complaints from their subscribers that there are gaps in [...]

Telus: Structure needed to maintain service By Sarah Simpson, The Citizen Concerned Cobble Hill resident Nelsy Elliott is being backed by the Cowichan Valley Regional District in her opposition to a Telus-proposed cell phone transmission tower in the South End. “It’s a 200-foot tower that they’re going to plunk on the corner of Sheppard Road [...]

If you are reading this, it is likely that you own or know someone owns a building with a spacious rooftop and/or a piece of land that you think is a potential cellular antenna site. While it is true that having your property leased by a cellular phone carrier can be worthwhile in terms of [...]

Got the worst site in the city ?  Bell, Telus, Rogers, Globalive Dave and Shaw may want to know about it.  You may be surprised.   Cell antennas have changing needs especially as wireless is rapidly evolving.  Small building owners and municipalities have a new opportunity to lease cellular sites. Antenna Management has a free antenna [...]

Residents are upset about a Rogers tower that is being built to enhance service customers in the Oakville, Ontario area. Despite assurances from Health Canada, Industry Canada, the American Cancer Society and the World Health Organization saying that there is no scientific reason to consider cell phone towers dangerous to the public, some residents remain [...]

A cell tower proposed for the Lake City Way area is going to public hearing. A rezoning request for the property at 8020 Enterprise St. was forwarded to a public hearing by council at Monday night’s meeting. Vanessa Cartwright appeared on behalf Scott Telecom Services and SBA Canada, an owner and operator of wireless communications [...]

By Rachel Stern A proposed cell tower in the Cedar area hasn’t met the same public outcry that made the Regional District of Nanaimo reject a proposed site earlier this year. Telus intends to build a 60-metre wireless communication tower at 1710 Woobank Rd. Shawn Hall, a Telus spokesman, said the company sent letters to [...]