Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Kashif Hussain, CellAdvisor Solutions Marketing from Viavi Solutions, ...

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) and the National Wireless Safety Alliance (NWSA) have launched the Telecommunications Tower Rigger Level I (TTR-I) ...

The master rigger of a 200-ft-high tower crane that collapsed at a midtown Manhattan construction site last March, killing seven workers and civilians, was indicted Jan. 5 on multiple charges of ...

Fig. 1: A bullet pierced a leg of a tower; the damage was noticed by a tower rigger performing a quarterly inspection. Our broadcast towers often are built in remote places, and autumn brings a ...

This is one in a series of articles on the fundamentals of FM transmission systems. Little thought is given to proper transmission line installation in many cases. A bag of cable ties or a box of ...

Shane Best considers himself part of a "special breed of people.” Perched high in the air, his job as a tower rigger regularly puts him 2,000 feet off the ground. Best is part of the crew of Tower ...

The Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau indicted the tower crane rigger company and the company’s owner involved in the deadly crane collapse in Manhattan on March 15, 2008. Williams Rapetti ...

A “LARRIKIN” rigger known as a stickler for safety fell more than 60m to his death in front of his mates after climbing a Telstra tower without a harness on, a coronial inquest has heard A police ...

A “LARRIKIN” rigger known as a stickler for safety fell more than 60m to his death in front of his mates after climbing a Telstra tower without a harness on, a coronial inquest has heard A police ...