[Scan-DC] AT&T Long Lines Tower Site

John Wilson [email protected]
Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:29:04 -0400


  Unless I missed something on his website, the tower sites he documents are in
Utah and California.

Shawn wrote:

> All,
> Here's the link that I first saw dealing with AT&T Long Lines.
> http://www.drgibson.com/towers/
> There is even a link back to Albert's site. :-)
> -Shawn
>
> Albert LaFrance wrote:
> >
> > Actually, the great common-carrier microwave networks which once spanned the
> > country are essentially gone, replaced by fiber optics.  I recall reading
> > that about 98-99 percent of AT&T's traffic now travels via fiber, with the
> > remaining microwave to be phased out in the next few years.  Most of the
> > towers have already been sold.  At one time the AT&T microwave network
> > consisted of about 2000 stations, with tens of thousands of individual
> > transmitter-receivers.
>
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