Don't We Have Enough Cell Towers?

The simple answer is no, we don't have enough cell towers in North America. And actually, compared to many European countries, the wireless network in the USA is lagging several years behind. For example, a country like Hungary where people had to wait 20 years for the national phone monopoly MATAV to install a land line until 1989, now has a wireless network far superior to that of the USA's.

As the wireless indusrty grows, there will be a huge increase for additional wireless coverage for existing coverage areas and in rural regions where there is little or no cell phone service to meet growing capacity and demand. As people start utilizing cell phones that have email and internet capabilities, increasing demands will be put on cell towers to deliver BANDWIDTH. As more and more subscribers are added to a particular network (the more phones they sell) the more their coverage shrinks around a given cell tower. In order to meet COVERAGE and CAPACITY demands, they need more cell sites.

Let's use the pizza pie analogy. You have a party. You invite 10 friends. You order 5 large Pizza's. Then 10 more friends show up that you weren't expecting and you start running out of pizza rather quickly, so you need to order another 5 pizza pies. Same goes for cell towers.

Airwave wants to inform municipalities that over the next decade, nearly 100,000 new cell towers will need to be constructed in the United States in addition to the 170,000 that already exist to meet the capacity needs of the booming wireless communication industry. That doesn't include the expansion and upgrades that will needed to be performed on existing cell sites.

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