I passed this on to a friend and he doesn't believe it. Could you tell me where you read about it? Thanks! (he's in the backup power supply business so he got excited!)
73's Skip WB6YMH --- In [email protected], "Tony L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your repeater is located at a cell site, check this out: > > October 16, 2007 - A Federal Communications Commission representative > said today that to meet national concerns for adequate public safety > communications, it had adopted an order reinforcing and clarifying a > prior order requiring cell phone and landline carriers within one > year to install power backup supplies at all of their sites and to > have portable power supplies available for sites that are incapable > of having power backup. > > The ruling will clearly benefit the economic growth of generator, > battery and fuel cell suppliers as well as installation contractors > throughout the country. Public safety will be the prime beneficiary, > but carriers and other telecom companies will be burdened with > considerable expenses that will be incurred in order to meet the > FCC's deadline -- impacting Adelstein's wished for success. > > The Commission's safety edict will result in increased administrative > costs to tower owners to manage the new power supply installations > that will ensure eight hours of power backup, but they will benefit > from increased lease rates as their tenants expand their compound > footprint. >
