Up A Suntel Tower

I went and climbed a really tall thing and it was great. Specifically, Ushani Kannangara of Suntel was kind enough to show me a Base Station in Horana. I got some more in-depth info for an article in iTimes, this is mostly photos. Suntel now reaches over 80% of Sri Lanka with CDMA (wireless) phones. This means a lot of people in underserved rural areas can talk to each other or family in the Middle East or doctors or whatever. Suntel is also making money serving new customers in the region, so the expansion is sustainable. Their network of 155 base stations is the hard groundwork for future expansion, which to me means Internet. I saw this 70 meter tower in Horana and they let me climb it which was really cool. It takes like 5 minutes to climb that high and I was really tired, but the view was beautiful. Also got a lot of parallax photos.

Writing it up, but here’s a Photo Gallery.

The view up

My other hand was shaking

50 Meters Up

70 Meters Up

Me at the Top

CDMA voices go to thru this cable

Cable going into ‘switchboard’, left is voices in, right is voices out

Posted on Friday, March 24th, 2006 in Personal, Photography, Tech.

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Janapathi
2006-03-24 13:36:08

I never thought of doing this. They should fix a L shape poll on top and fix a bundy jump cable to this.. free publicity and good fun..

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Anj
2006-03-24 16:18:24

Bundy Jump sounds a little dangerous, if you didnt have much of a tummy to bounce off…
… Or is that when you jump with a ‘Bundy (Bundaberg Rum) and cola’ in hand and say “Whoo.. I’m flying”?… I’m a little confused.
Bungee jump may be more fun…
I almost tried doing this in South Aus, but it was too windy.

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C_A_B
2006-03-25 02:23:31

Janapathi,

Now, now naughty boy – don’t get your Karuna boys all jealous by getting up Indi’s tower.

Cheers,
C_A_B

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Janapathi
2006-03-25 11:35:08

Sounds fun man.. when climbing the tower with black well polished office shoes !!! Got ya..

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