Tuesday, January 15, 2008

St. Mel's loses cell antennas

Parishioners of a Queens church and parents of its parochial school pupils were jubilant last week after two cellular phone companies unplugged 23 antenna towers from the school's roof.

Companies pull school cell antennas

The years-long tug of war between the community and the companies finally ended after Sprint Nextel removed its towers from Flushing's St. Mel School, which had signed a contract in 2000 to lease roof space.

The company had shared the space at 154-24 26th Ave. with T-Mobile.

T-Mobile also agreed to discontinue using its antenna towers after Sprint Nextel made the first move, said City Councilman Tony Avella (D-Bayside).


May T-Mobile decide similarly in Maspeth.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good. They should never have put them there in the first place.