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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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September 10, 2002

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 11:31 PM

Is your property great for a cell tower?

Mark van der Hoek does it again!, outstanding advice on what to do if you think your property would be great for a cellular tower. Click here to read.

Memories, from a woman hacker and former telco employee who lived in Hawaii several years ago:

"Oahu was a bit tighter about hacking. I have great stories about dumpster diving out there, like the time my friend and I were swapping fence duties to get trash from the Punahou Central Office in the Kakaako district of Honolulu. (2054 Young street to be precise.) I was looking for GTD5 information (internal link); in fact I was obsessed with that switch because nobody knew much about EAX'es and I've always been an elitist ;) Anyway, while we were trashing there was, in front, a telco employee calmly sitting in his car, smoking and staring at us for two hours (Okay, there was a lot of trash, it was dark, it was New Years' Eve, and we were both just a bit drunk). So we got back to my apartment, found some numbers, called some people working at the switch and this guy comes on and says 'Aren't you one of those hackers?' to which I asked 'What's a hacker?,' and we proceeded to get into a discussion in which I vehemently replied that that was quite impossible, and that I couldn't be a hacker because there's no such thing as female hackers... But you probably had to be there to really get the joke . . ."

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