After several months of unexplained delay, telecom operator ACD is close to wrapping up a deal in Boyne City, MI to build five, 35-to-40-foot-tall cell towers around Boyne City. “It appears that our long-delayed agreement with ACD for five proposed micro cell towers, that were approved by the city commission in October, is alive again after dropping off the face of the Earth shortly thereafter,” City Manager Michael Cain told a town meeting earlier this week, according to the Boyne Gazette.
ACD is willing to provide some decorative material to make the poles more aesthetically pleasing while remaining functional and providing adequate service to telecommunications consumers in the city. The towers would allow ACD to provide gigabit fiber service to all of Boyne City. ACD officials said the company has a backbone fiber line that goes through Boyne City which was built over the last few years with partial government funding to expand broadband service, the Gazette reported. ACD owns a third of this line, the university system owns another third. [other partner? we know?]
ACD needs to outfit that transmission line with equipment to carry extremely high bandwidth connections. The towers to be installed have a coverage radius of 1,500 to 2,000 feet from the towers, depending upon terrain, buildings, and trees. The smaller Distributed Antenna Systems involved with the towers in question are intended to help offload traffic from the larger towers to help keep the system running efficiently.
ACD will provide up to $30,000 to help pay for the new traffic light poles.
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