COLLOCATION. The use of a wireless telecommunication facility by more than one wireless telecommunication provider.
LATTICE TOWER. A support structure constructed of vertical metal struts and cross braces forming a triangular or square structure, which often tapers from the foundation to the top.
MONOPOLE. A support structure constructed of a single, self-supporting hollow metal tube securely anchored to a foundation.
PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICES. Commercial mobile services, wireless services and common carrier wireless exchange access services, including cellular and digital services.
TECHNICALLY SUITABLE. The location of a wireless telecommunication antenna that reasonably serves the purpose for which it is intended within the band width of frequencies for which the owner or operator of the antenna has been licensed by the FCC to operate without a significant loss of communication capability within developed areas of the city.
TELECOMMUNICATION. The technology which enables information to be exchanged through the transmission of voice, video or data signals by means of electrical or electromagnetic systems.
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION ANTENNA. A physical device used to receive or transmit electromagnetic, wireless telecommunication signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission between cellular phones, pagers, commercial mobile services, wireless services and ground-wired telecommunication systems including, but not limited to, directional antennas, such as panels, microwave dishes and satellite dishes, and omnidirectional antennas, such as whips. Antennas used by amateur radio operators are excluded from this definition.
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITY. A facility consisting of the equipment and structures involved in receiving telecommunication or radio signals from a mobile radio communications source and transmitting those signals to a central switching computer which connects the mobile unit with the land-based telephone lines or relays signals to another land based or mobile receiver
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SUPPORT STRUCTURE. Any building or structure accessory to but necessary for the proper functioning of the wireless telecommunication antennas.
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION TOWER. A structure intended to support equipment used to transmit and/or receive telecommunication signals including monopoles, guyed and lattice construction steel structures.
(Ord. 5-2005, passed 3-23-05; Am. Ord. 2-2014, passed 3-5-14)