Disney Nextel Trees

[Robfasto]

I will contact my buddy at Disney who was an engineer on the Nextel project, it my take a fews days as I believe he may be in Hong Kong again.

 

[GymLeaderPhil]

I don't know about anyone else, but coverage in the past for cell phones have been terrible within the WDW property. I'm all for more towers.

 

[Tom]

As was colorfully discussed in another thread, I am not a fan of seeing cell towers from inside the parks. It's like seeing a road or cars or people out of character to me - not magical.

I personally carry a Nextel, but I don't take it to the parks. It stays on the charger in the room the whole time, and is only used for people outside the world to notify me if someone actually keels over dead - otherwise, I do not asscociate with "outsiders" during my trips :lol:

I understand that many people use the cell phones to communicate with other members of their party, inside the parks, and I suppose they need cell towers for that to work. I just wish all these people had the common courtesy to turn them off while on rides, in shows, at parades, etc. Sure, many of you DO, but many of you don't - and I wish pain upon those :goodnevil

 

[Robfasto]

I use Verizon and have never had a problem at any Disney park or Resort getting service. Most of the time I just leave my phone turned off and check the voice mail whenever I get a change which is riding on a bus most of the time.

I agree 110% about cellphone on attractions. If people don't want to turn them off at least set them to vibrate.

 

[Figment1986]

The only reason to do this is so Disney can use nextel with it's employees.....

(what other phones are on nextel's towers??)

 

[Gail Hayden]

No, but it is near the Merritt. It's on the Hutch by the Mobil Station between Mamroneck Avenue and North Street exits. It's hilarious. People of upper Westchester must go crazy when they see that! :lol:

The one by the Mobil station that is in the middle of the road, right? I don't pay attention to exit names, LOL, I am usually gearing up for the fun ride into the city.

 

[Robfasto]

The deal with Nextel DOES NOT allow any other carriers on their towers.

Disney is switching most of the 2-way traffic to the Nextel system.

 

[AliciaLuvzDizne]

i heard from a terribly unreliable source that nextel and sprint were pairing up. or one bought the other or something like that...
can anyone confirm??

 

[Atta83]

i heard from a terribly unreliable source that nextel and sprint were pairing up. or one bought the other or something like that...
can anyone confirm??

Yep same thing I herad. My dad does stuff with Motorola but hasnt said much. But it is nice to see managment getting rid of the old two way radios, I remember telling a manager I knew what kind of radio he had before showing it to me...thats a good way to impress them :lol:

 

[zarsu]

We do carry our cell phones but leave them on vibrate. The only reason we do is becuse in March of 03 when we were there it was the police calling us saying they caught two people clearing our out house out back in Rhode Island and wanted to know if we wanted to press charges! Nothing was lost and yes we pressed charges on our NEIGHBORS!!!!

 

[evanssc]

I first saw cell phone trees in England 12 years ago. Theirs, however, were the same height as the other trees and required a good eye to pick them out. They looked much better than what we have here in the states.

Here in Chattanooga, they stuck one of those trees on top of a small mountain. You talk about an eyesore.

 

[mmssbrg2]

Nextel and Sprint have agreed to merge.

The technology used by Nextel is not used by any other carrier in the industry. This is why Nextel customers cannot roam on other carriers' networks. Likewise, this is why other users of other carriers cannot use Nextel towers. It's not necessarily an agreement issue, it's a system compatability issue.

 

[goofyman]

I understand that many people use the cell phones to communicate with other members of their party, inside the parks, and I suppose they need cell towers for that to work. I just wish all these people had the common courtesy to turn them off while on rides, in shows, at parades, etc. Sure, many of you DO, but many of you don't - and I wish pain upon those :goodnevil[/QUOTE]

Esp the NEXTELS! I really don't need to hear everyones conversation!

 

[monothingie]

I understand that many people use the cell phones to communicate with other members of their party, inside the parks, and I suppose they need cell towers for that to work. I just wish all these people had the common courtesy to turn them off while on rides, in shows, at parades, etc. Sure, many of you DO, but many of you don't - and I wish pain upon those :goodnevil

I think I learned my lesson, the hard way.

-ADN

 

[Robfasto]

Here you go folks...

Alright...There were 10 official Nextel cell sites added during this project. There were also 4 Crown Castle (multi-carrier) sites, though two of them are shared with Nextel. There is also one emergency-only "failover" location. There are several other towers across property that existed prior to the Nextel Project, but I don't don't where they all are... They are considered "second tier", and are not relied upon to provide service to the new Cast radios.

Here's the list:
01. Disney's Wide World of Sports (northwest corner of complex)
02. DC-6 (distribution warehouse in admin area)
03. Epcot's Imagine Parking Lot (Nextel-Crown Castle shared site)
04. Force Main Road (dirt path connecting South Service Area to World Drive - Crown Castle site)
05. Cirque du Soleil (hidden in flagpoles on roof)
06. Epcot's American Adventure (hidden inside new cupola)
07. Contemporary Resort (hidden behind stealth wall on roof - Nextel-Crown Castle shared site)
08. Grand Floridian ("tree" behind engineering services complex)
09. Disney-MGM Studios' Feature Animation (hidden behind stealth wall on roof)
10. Disney-MGM Studios' Rockin' Roller Coaster (hidden behind stealth wall on roof - Crown Castle site)
11. Coronado Springs Resort (hidden behind stealth wall on roof)
12. Animal Kingdom ("tree" behind cast services facility)
13. Disney-MGM Studios' Tower of Terror (emergency failover site only)

I've also attached a satellite view with the cell-site locations marked on it. Hope this helps!

Hope this helps

 

[WDWKat26]

I think it's really funny how they try to disguise them, especially the single one backstage that sticks out like a sore thumb. Oh well, it least they're making the attempt!

 

[AliciaLuvzDizne]

well
i LIKE the idea of the 2ways
but
does this mean that my sprint service is going to get crappy? or that nextell's is going to get better.

also, there is an option on those nextel's that you can have a 2 way conversation IN the phone (almost like a regular phone call) so that no one can here what your people are saying. i have a feeling a lot of times its a "status" thing (which is weird enough)

 

[Gail Hayden]

I understand that many people use the cell phones to communicate with other members of their party, inside the parks, and I suppose they need cell towers for that to work. I just wish all these people had the common courtesy to turn them off while on rides, in shows, at parades, etc. Sure, many of you DO, but many of you don't - and I wish pain upon those :goodnevil

Esp the NEXTELS! I really don't need to hear everyones conversation![/QUOTE]

Amen to that!!!! ITA!!!

 

[s25843]

Esp the NEXTELS! I really don't need to hear everyones conversation!

Amen to that!!!! ITA!!![/QUOTE]


Like someone else said, you can easily turn the speaker off. Most people chose to keep it on

 

[bork]

does this mean that my sprint service is going to get crappy

My Sprint service is terrible. I don't see how it can get any worse.

Sprint PCS (Pretty Crappy Service)