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Discuss “Cell phone tower installed on Warner”

Cingular Wireless installed a new cell phone tower on the roof of Warner Hall three weeks ago.

Telecom, a division of Carnegie Mellon’s Network Services Department, has worked on a project to increase cell phone reception across campus for the past decade, stated Chuck Bartel, the director of network services for the Division of Computing Services, in an e-mail.

Bell Atlantic Mobile placed the university’s first cell phone tower on top of Wean Hall in the mid-1990s and paid $1000 per month, according to Bartel.

The major cell phone carriers, which now include Cingular, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile, each pay monthly leases between $1000 and $2000 to place their towers on the roof of Warner Hall.

According to Bartel, that money...

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