[Scan-DC] FCC Gets Into Dispute With Landlord Over Their Nextel Antennas.

[Steve Rigby]

Marcel wrote:

> The landlord took the FCC & GSA  to the Board of Contract Appeals
>  of the General Services Administration. The FCC / GSA
> (Taxpayers, us, we) was ordered to pay their landlord of $1,000
> per month for a Nextel  BDA on the roof of the FCC building.
> 
> Amazing, Simply Amazing!

   $1,000 per month for an antenna is a high figure.  However, I do
understand why some building owners would not want to see antennas
on their roof.  A tenant in a building that is not owned by said
tenant does not have the right to install equipment such as antennas.

   On the issue of cell phone antennas, it has long been said by the
phone industry that they would prefer to place antennas on rooftops
of buildings as opposed to entering into the battles that erupt when
they propose antenna towers as an alternative.  Well, sometimes a
building owner will simply not allow for antennas to be installed.
Sometimes, simple aesthetics are at play.  Many building owners have
paid handsomely for the execution of a building design that would be
eroded were antennas to sprout up on the roof.  Wireless users and
providers do not, as yet, have domain over the private property of
others as hard as they have tried to achieve that goal.

   Steve