In this video interview filmed at OPASTCO’s 2008 Summer Convention, Pat Riordan, President and CEO of Nsight, discusses the implementation of an off-the-grid cell phone tower by its wireless subsidiary, Cellcom. Prior to Cellcom’s construction of this unique repeater site, cell service was not available in this rather remote area of the Eagle River of Northern Wisconsin.
Bringing power in via the electrical grid was too expensive to be practical. The Cellcom engineers devised a combination of solar power, wind power and a back-up generator to provide power to this unique cell tower. Besides being an environmentally-friendly way to extend communications to a previously un-served area, this solution looks like it will prove out from a business standpoint.
