Comment on T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The planning board’s decision was based on health concerns due to the possible negative environmental impact of telecommunication on the residents, especially the children studying at the school who could potentially be exposed to electromagnetic radiation. The town felt the residents would be ‘unsafe’ due to radio frequencies and rejected the company’s notion of building the tower on the land.
I mean, I think that the planning board is idiotic, but I don’t see why T-Mobile cares enough to fight it. If they don’t build it, the Wanaque is going to have crummy cell coverage. Let them have bad cell coverage and build a tower somewhere else. It’s not like this is the world’s only place that could use better cell coverage.
Speedtest.net bought a service that was doing this already sort of. I looked just now and I think it’s their “map” option on their mobile app. You need to switch between carriers to see coverage.
The tech was based off of manual speed tests and a background app that would measure coverage from a phone for a small area, about the size of 3 square acres.
start publishing a coverage score for cities for cell coverage
Each of them has an internal one and since contractors bounce around it’s like a wiki but slower.
Zak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A quick web search for third-party tells me that Wanaque has good coverage from Verizon and poor coverage from T-Mobile. It’s easy to guess why T-Mobile might be motivated to change that situation.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
www.verizon.com/coverage-map/
This shows that Verizon has good coverage in part of Wanaque, moderate coverage in part, and no coverage in part.