[Queue soundtrack to “Another Brick in the Wall.]
Here’s what motorists on the Septima P. Clark Freeway encountered this morning on the way to the office. Workers apparently are putting more communications gear on top of the infamous 5-G Toilet Roll Pole in downtown Charleston.
Maybe the technicians found a special on oversized toilet rolls at Costco.
As outlined in an August story, the 113-foot 5G wireless communications tower slithered into existence without anyone being able to do much about it, thanks to the Federal Communications Commission.
At the end of June, the agency received notice that an older tower — a tall, skinny, white mono-pole on Line Street that seemed innocuous next to a blaring billboard — was to be modified by a new Florida owner. A new brick wall went up around it and poof! The “Toilet Roll Pole” (TRP) came into existence.
At the time, the city of Charleston said it couldn’t do anything about the tower due to federal rules.
Look around your neighborhood, and you’ll find more TRPs. That’s the price of wireless communications improvements.
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