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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.

« First barcodes, now semacodes | | More on the control channel in IS-136 »

October 14, 2004

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 04:57 PM

Cell tower and cell site newsletter

Ken Schmidt (internal link) now produces a newsletter with news and views on tower and cell site issues. Subscribe or read it on-line here: http://www.steelintheair.com/CellTowerIndustryNews.htm (external link)

Going backward with voice quality

Although IP is the future for data networks, does it have to be for voice? Are we going to kill our legacy circuit switches (internal link) and consequently voice quality (internal link) because of it? MCI recently announced they are going to route their international gateway traffic to "carrier class voice over IP." That means they'll use their own internet protocol network to send traffic, minimizing latency. But that problem will still be there. How long will it be until the other major telcos go IP for international? And then domestic? Perhaps sooner than we thought.

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