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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (24055)	6/29/2000 12:26:00 PM
From: crdesign	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Comment dovetailing JW's observations: I just drove to my local supermarket which is in eyesight of an Episcopal Church. A new addition was made to the church's steeple which consisted of a cylinder of 8-10 vertical planes peering in all directions....a religious cell tower? All hail Bell Atlantic! What was interesting is this community holds great historical architectural value, but it appears that money talks and history fades. Chalk up another point for technology. I must admit, the redesigned steeple looks far better than wooden telephone poles strewn up and down todays streets. I will miss those silly wires decorated with old stinky sneakers. Loving the modern day communications; no strings attached, Tim

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (24055)	6/29/2000 1:43:00 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Your description of Bean Town sounds like Pittsburgh. A small city surrounded by a bunch of small towns & municipalities - each their own little fiefdom hanging on to their own little power base. IMO, not only bad for wireless coverage to implement, but bad for any economic growth due to each fiefdom having their own agendas (read corruption, etc.) & regulations making it extremely difficult for any company to locate regionally &/or expand in the geographic area. Another drawback is that the extremely excessive duplication of unnecessary public offices/services/administrative positions. How many mayors are needed to serve a region? How many police chiefs? How many school districts & school Superintendents? How many heads of Road maintenance? How many duplicative city & county governments overlap numerous duties/services? How many administrative positions to serve all these unnecessary duplicative departments serving small communities in a large overall urban environment? .... etc., etc., etc. This is compounded by the overlapping of services & the absolute waste of tax dollars that return absolutely nothing to the taxpayers. In the end, all of this ends up hurting economic growth. Why locate or expand a business in an area that is over taxed & where regulations that can impact your business can drastically differ every couple of miles? oof :-\| I rant Tim