The property owner who lives where Alcatel-Lucent Canada wants to put a 60-metre tower on 110th Avenue in east Maple Ridge understands that her neighbours are worried. “I don’t blame them for having concern,” says Janine Brooker. But base your concern on the facts, she adds. The Lower Mainland is covered with cellphone towers, including [...]

On June 1, 2011 an estimated 65,000 U2 fans at Commonwealth Stadium overloaded cell antennas with calls, texts and tweets, underlining a potentially serious problem with network capacity. “Very soon, it’s going to be a problem not only for a concert night,” said Dhiaa Hussen, a telecommunications engineering technology instructor at NAIT. “This was a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]