To conclude, I tried to answer a very difficult question:
Why is it so hard to stay connected in the technology center of the country?
[There] may actually be too many towers, too many devices, too much unlicensed use of spectrum, and too much electrosmog for all of those gadgets to work as we would hope. We don't need more towers and antennas to solve our communications troubles. We need to protect the airwaves for municipalities, emergency responders, and other critical uses. The FCC's plan to reallocate more spectrum from broadcast television to mobile wireless (5G anyone?) will set us up for all kinds of headaches, both in communications and our craniums.
Oakland police radio culprit: cell towers - San Francisco Chronicle
Oakland officials say they and federal investigators have discovered a major source of disruption to the city's police radio communications system: interference from cell phone towers.
Specifically, officials said, cell phone towers operated by AT&T Wireless have been interfering with the city's public safety communications frequency and causing radio failures among police and firefighters on city streets.
AT&T, notified by the city of the problem last week, is cooperating and has partially disabled 16 towers. A company spokesman said the impact on customers will be minimal, affecting only those on the company's oldest phones.
The towers constantly interfered with the radios, but the problems became particularly pronounced when a police car was within a quarter to a half mile of a tower, said David Cruise, Oakland's public safety systems adviser.
"If the officer is in an area close to one of their cell sites, essentially the cell site overpowers their radios," he said.
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