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vvnne puDiiciy expressea sentiment seems to be Luddite in the extreme, private opinions I've heard seem to suggest that many people are hoping someone else will do the dirty work of getting this necessary infrastructure in place-while we can all express our opposition and stay smelling like a rose.
Will the towers make the landscape more or less cluttered in the long run?
Ultimately it is possible that moving toward wireless will result indirectly in an improved rather than more-spoiled landscape. This may be a surprising statement, but thinking about this wireless issue has made me realize just how many of the intrusions into the natural landscape of Rappahannock are wire-related.
Miles and miles of telephone lines, across otherwise-unspoiled vistas, including the otherwise-postcard-pretty Massie's Comer. Thousands and thousands of telephone poles. Compared with this, the wireless future looks pretty dam unobtrusive.
Conclusion
Please don't water down or try to delay the tower proposal. Even though there are no guarantees, we would benefit from Sprint giving its best shot at providing strong coverage even on the side roads. It seems unlikely to me that Sprint is proposing more towers than they need-if anything they are likely to be cautious, because of the very sketchy opportunities for revenue gain in our small, sparsely-populated county. Let's build sufficient capacity this time around and move onward with our great county.
Micah Solomon is President of Oasis CD Duplication in Flint Hill. He resides with his wife Vandy in Woodville. He can be reached at micah@oasiscd.com
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