They are taking refuge in church steeples. They are hiding in water towers, farm silos, and school cupolas. They are camouflaged as pine trees and after Sept. 11, they are paying tribute as flag poles.
Personal wireless service facilities, all the equipment that makes your cell phone work, are disguised so well so often that one wonders why the controversy over the siting of cell towers is not over. Still, cellular service providers vie for prime spots to erect tall towers along roads, amid fields, and within residential and commercial developments, and so the dispute between those who wish to provide the service and those who do not want to see how it works, refereed by municipal permitting authorities, continues.
