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Consider this site an authoritative resource. Its moderators have successful careers in the telecommunications industry. Utilize the content and send comments. As a site about communicating, conversation is encouraged.

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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 19, 2005

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 11:23 PM

Congratulations Don Kimberlin!

Frequent contributor Don Kimberlin (internal link) is now an award winning writer. On Tuesday the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas he received on Tuesday the Radio Guide Technology Initiative Award, Historical Events Category. The award was for an article he wrote ten years ago, when he recalled his work on distributing the live feed from the first Moon landing to televisions around the globe. The most permanent archive of that article is here:

http://mirror.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-
archives/archives/history/camelot.on.moon-july.69
Great reading.

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