«return to previous Cell Towers CFW & Trigon:  Provide and Conquer   CFW & Trigon:  Provide and Conquer posted 5 August 1999    Albemarle County is showing the rest of us that cellular towers don't have to be tall, industrial and intrusive to be effective and profitable.  Some cellular phone companies and tower-building interests insist on the outdated dictum that the taller and more visible the tower, the better.  However, when Albemarle County's Board of Supervisors insisted on less visually intrusive alternatives, two companies took up the challenge.     CFW, based in Waynesboro, developed a telephone-pole approach to providing its service.  Along the major roads in Albemarle, CFW is using wooden telephone poles set in the trees, with either a thin 'tuning-fork' appendage or flat panels that protrude about six feet above the tree line.  When set in front of other trees these poles are nearly impossible to spot.    Another company, Trigon, utilizes existing electrical power poles or other structures, including a church steeple, to hide their cellular panels, or adds a minimal extra bit of metal to structures that residents are used to seeing.    Both CFW and Trigon have said that these small sites are providing good customer service and, more importantly, are enabling them to beat out the competition by getting their cell sites in service throughout the county first.    For more information about this, contact Wayne Cilimberg, Albemarle County Planning Director, 804-296-5823.

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