Sunroom Desk

Glendale Organized Against Cell Towers (GOACT) has joined the Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies. CLOUT is a network of community groups in California and around the country who are fighting similar battles, usually against T-Mobile. T-Mobile does not have land-based infrastructure like cables and telephone lines, and must compete for broadband subscribers with a network of wireless towers instead.

GOACT is a great acronym. It has one negative word, though, and implies opposition to all cell towers (while the group only opposes cell sites in or near residential neighborhoods).

CLOUT is an even better acronym. Its preposition is positive (for), and it implies that citizens should have the right (and authority!) to tell outside utility companies how to do business in the local community.

Editorial Change Inspired by Acronym

As this blog has published news stories on T-Mobile, AT&T, cable technologies v. fiber optics, and related subjects, “Cell Towers” has seemed too limiting a category for news affecting Glendale, California residents and telecom/broadband customers. As a result, I’ve changed Sunroom Desk’s category Cell Towers to Utility Technologies to better describe its posts.