Where are cell towers located and are there any unique ones?
Providers of cell phone service are reluctant to discuss the location and number of their area cell phone towers. Mobiledia provides a listing of cell phone towers at http://www.cellreception.com/towers/ Once on the Web site, key in a ZIP code or the name of a city and state to pull up a Google map and locate cell phone towers in the vicinity. The list may be incomplete and does not describe the appearance of each tower. But going by data provided by Mobiledia, there are about 50 towers throughout New Hanover County and more than 20 in northern Brunswick County. “I can tell you of the 90 sites AT&T will be adding in the Carolinas this year, three are scheduled for the Wilmington area,” says AT&T spokeswoman Amy Bristle. Bristle says AT&T sometimes gets creative in its approach to cell phone towers. “AT&T works closely with local communities to balance both zoning requirements and aesthetic concerns with customers’ need for reliable service,” she says. “This means we sometimes use a var
