With the expansion of new technology for the transmission of data and voice, wireless has become big business. Cellular phone companies need to transmit information from mobile devices to fixed-based telephone lines. Relay towers in remote areas, especially at higher altitudes, are necessary to rapidly forward these signals from cellular equipment to the land-based telephone lines. Crown Castle Arizona is among the growing number of telecommunications companies that build relay stations and then lease its equipment inside to telecommunications service providers. One of the company's challenges to keeping its stations on line has been figuring out a way to keep them from being shot at. With the help of Charles Steckly, a Littleton, CO-based architect, it may have finally found a solution.
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