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Video Provides Technician Commentary on the Inspection and Use of Safety Climb Systems Installed on Communication Towers NATE has released a video entitled “Safety Climbs” designed to highlight the important elements of properly inspecting and utilizing safety climb systems that are installed on communication towers. The video was the latest to debut in Volume 4… Continue »
Ern’s Perspective Following our lead, China has issued an order that all foreign-made hardware and software, for both computers and wireless, be removed from government offices and public institutions within the next three years. That amounts to upward of 30 million pieces of hardware to change out. Well, I guess we are now in a… Continue »
Don’s Turn When tower companies back efforts to improve safe working conditions for technicians who climb towers, it makes a difference. The senior editor of the AGL eDigest email newsletter, J. Sharpe Smith, reported on Nov. 19 that tower companies SBA Communications and Vertical Bridge are setting certification requirements for tower site technicians in their… Continue »
CommScope will begin the new year and the new decade reorganized into four segments—Venue and Campus Networks; Broadband Networks; Outdoor Wireless Networks and Home Networks — aligned with what it believes will be the primary growth opportunities for networks in the future. The change will position the company to take advantage of some of the… Continue »
The federal trial to decide the fate of the State’s lawsuit against the Sprint/T-Mobile provided some new details on how Charlie Ergen, CEO of Dish Network, will build out his 5G network, if the merger goes through. The company’s strategy for its 5G network calls for 2,500 towers by 2021, 10,000 sites by 2022, 15,000… Continue »
There has been a lot of talk about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Verizon and AT&T, among others, are beginning to do the walk. Verizon has installed a 5G system in Corning’s fiber optic cable manufacturing facility in Hickory, North Carolina to test how 5G can enhance factory automation and quality assurance. The companies are also… Continue »
