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Cell Phone Towers: Fascinating Facts You Didn't Know
May 11, 2025
Cell Phone Towers are infrastructure that make it possible for smartphones and dumb phones to connect wirelessly for voice calls, SMS (text messaging), and cellular data (mobile Internet). Here are a few intriguing, even fascinating, facts about them. #cellphonetower #cellphonetowers
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there are a few intriguing and some
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fascinating things you did not know
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about cell phone
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towers first and foremost did you know
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that cell phone towers are not always
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towers
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sometimes they are small pieces of
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equipment placed on the top of a
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building on a lamp
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post sometimes they are disguised as
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trees cactus
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plants church stipples and the like you
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probably drive past a number of cell
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phone towers without realizing that they
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are cell phone towers
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secondly did you know that cell phone
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towers beam electromagnetic waves at to
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the speed of light yes it is why you are
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able to hear the other person at the end
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of the line in real time transmission is
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super fast
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it might also interest you to know that
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cell phone towers hand over your calls
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and your connections to one another like
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in a relay race you know those races
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where one person collects the baiton
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from another and then runs and hands it
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over to another so if you happen to be
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walking running driving or you're
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traveling in a bus or in any other land
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vehicle you are meeting and leaving
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behind multiple cell phone towers all
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the time and what happens when you are
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in motion like that is that one cell
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phone tower is handing you over to the
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next one and handing you over to the
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next one which is why sometimes when
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you're in motion your your your
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telephone call connection is not as
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stable as it is when you're standing
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still it might interest you to know that
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some cell phone towers are powered by
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solar panels or by wind turbines yes not
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all of them run on gas gasoline petrol
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or diesel some are powered by solar
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panels and some are powered by wind
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turbines i mentioned earlier that cell
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phone towers often are not all towers
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yes but where they are towers most of
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them are within the range of 50 to 200
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ft tall but the highest or should I say
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the tallest cell phone tower in the
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world is over 2,000 ft high yes 2,000
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ft tall that's the tallest cell phone
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tower in the world fantastic right
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did you know that 5G cell phone towers
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have much shorter range than 4G and 3G
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cell phone towers
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the average 4G 3G cell phone tower has a
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range of 20 to 35
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miles
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but 5G towers
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often are in the range of a mile or
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two maybe a little bit more depending on
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location and the specifics but as a
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rule five guitars have a much shorter
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range so you need many more of them in a
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specific area than you would need 4G and
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3G
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towers no matter the carrier or mobile
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network operator that you belong to many
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times this carriers share towers that
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means each cell phone tower you see is
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likely shared by multiple of carriers
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you would have for example
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AT&T and
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T-Mobile using the same cell phone tower
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in a particular location why do they do
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this it is to lower the cost of
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operation they are able to share the
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cost of keeping it running and
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maintaining that location
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this ought to be obvious to everyone but
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cell phone towers run
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24/7 except for when something nasty
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something terrible happens but cell
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phone towers run 24/7
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and it is for this reason that they
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often have backup generators inverters
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batteries so that should there be a
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failure of public power supply
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operations to your location are not
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disrupted and
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lastly most cell phone towers are
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connected to one another through fiber
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optic cables but where fiber optic
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cables are not feasible practical or
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reasonable cell phone towers often use
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satellite links for back hall so in
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other words where cables where it is
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impractical or does not make business
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sense to run cables to a cell phone
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tower especially in rural areas in the
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middle of nowhere such cell phone towers
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will use a satellite connection to stay
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connected to the network as a
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whole these are things about cell phone
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towers hopefully you did not know before
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but now know i'll see you in my next
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video
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