Community resistance to cell sites has been common since the mid-1990s, when the first big wave of cellphone tower construction began.
It seems that way, but then again, why would a terrorist organization with the capacity to hack into cellphone lines, construction cranes, city buses and security cameras need to mess with stressed-out ordinary citizens?
A different approach -- by design or happenstance, but altogether legal -- is to block cellphone signals through construction techniques.
Commercial activities like mining and construction of cellphone towers, which would have been easier under the suggested revisions of a year ago, will continue to face the same high hurdles as in the past.
These measures are part of a tightening of controls in North Korea, including the banning of cellphones in May, the construction this summer of a wooden wall in the most traveled sections of the China border to discourage unauthorized travel there, and the reopening of militia checkpoints on roads leading into Pyongyang.
The cellular telephone company T-Mobile approached the Mount Diablo Silverado Council -- Boy Scouts of America to see if it would allow construction of a cellphone tower at Camp Herms, the group's 23-acre hillside property above Arlington Park in the El Cerrito hills.
Fire and rescue authorities grumbled about a local controversy that has delayed construction of a cellphone tower on Mt. Baldy.
The caller, a frantic construction worker with a cellphone, confirmed the incorrect address and hung up.
T was lucky he heard his cellphone ring over the racket of his construction equipment as he worked outside in the suburbs last September.
They blend with the real-world sounds of traffic on the street below, building construction, sirens and, nearby, ringing cellphones, creating a subtly expansive feeling of spaciousness.
