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Thomas Farely

Tom has produced privateline.com since 1995. He is now a freelance technology writer who contributes regularly to the site.

His knowledge of telecommunications has served, most notably, the American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine and The History Channel.
His interview on Alexander Graham Bell will air on the History Channel the end of 2006.

Ken Schmidt

Ken is a licensed attorney who has worked in the tower industry for seven years. He has managed the development of broadcast towers nationwide and developed and built cell towers.

He has been quoted in newspapers and magazines on issues regarding cell towers and has spoke at industry and non-industry conferences on cell tower related issues.

He is recognized as an expert on cell tower leases and due diligence processes for tower acquisitions.

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June 16, 2001

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 12:24 AM

Promoters over promised cellular

Saw yet another article on how wireless promoters have over promised cellular and that people continue to be mad over the most basic problem, dropped calls. You cannot build out a cellular network, possibly at any price, so much that it will not drop calls. Years ago I read the obvious in The Ericsson Review: developers and wireless carriers needed to allow for dropped calls since broken connections are inevitable in a wireless world. So if you were downloading a file from the office and your call was dropped, well, once back in range the call would connect again and the file would resume downloading at the point it stopped. Let's hope the wireless community spends more money on continuity since they can't guarantee connectivity.

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