Perhaps I should not have limited my radio tower choice to those which would need to be erected anew. There are plenty of towers out there now on which space could be leased, and there are plenty more going in all the time by national companies and local wireless operators, alike, to meet a growing number of purposes.
At one time my thought was to see multipurpose towers erected which served both the wireless operators and the wireline field node requirements of cablecos and telcos/clecs, alike. Of course, this may seem unlikely and more of a utopian and naive characterization of how things could be done, but facilities sharing is nothing new, witness colo-ing, itself. And these types of multiuse tower-pops would not be the rule of the day, rather they would be where crossover conditions exist as a matter of proximity, and only where it made absolute sense.
The latter could --probably does already, in some locales-- reside in a CEV-like enclosure at the base of each tower, or underground, and allow for economies through facilities cost sharing for all the common needs of all concerned, and to satisfy the needs I alluded to earlier. |
