[EAS] [BC] Fwd: [ChicagolandSkywarn] WEA Enabled Phones to Receive Emergency Messages

[Mike McCarthy]

There's a difference between a private owner and a municipality with 
certain powers.

MM

On 5/16/2012 10:56 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> And only a matter of time before state, county and local agencies join.
> How? By using zoning rules and quid-pro.  "well let you build the tower
> if you carry our emergency messages."
> Good luck to them enforcing that. In my experience leasing tower space to
> cell phone companies for Charles River Broadcasting, I found the companies
> willing to agree to anything but once up and running, would conveniently
> forget their agreements. And it's virtually impossible to evict a cell
> site or shut it down once it's on the air.
>