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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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April 24, 2005

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 11:19 PM

$60,000 operator positions?!

Yes, 48 of them. For the new Los Angeles Dispatch Center. A good article from the LA Downtown News Online (external link) (Caution, this external link may die in just a month or two.)

Rescued 911

Inside Downtown's Improved Emergency Call Center

by Chris Coates

One of the unique things about the Downtown Metropolitan Communications Dispatch Center, where thousands of 911 calls are fielded each day, is that it doesn't look like the expected dark warren of cubicles filled with operators wearing headsets. Instead, the 15,000-square-foot call center in the $19 million building is an odd mix of police station, hectic newsroom and military intelligence center. . .(Continues here, external link)

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