Airlines have yet to say whether they will continue offering service to airports that lose tower staff.

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Later the Bahamian government built a 200-foot telecommunications tower to bring phone service to the island.

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Police were called by the ambulance service to an address at The Tower Centre in Alvescot Road, Carterton, shortly before 08:00 GMT.

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It leases and manages antenna space on its multi-tenant communications tower sites to wireless service providers and radio and TV broadcast companies.

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Apparently, the service makes use of cell-tower triangulation, and not GPS, to determine the users location, making it somewhat less accurate but far more widely available.

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The third tower was occupied by the Secret Service, the CIA, the Department of Defense and the Office of Emergency Management, which would co-ordinate any response to a disaster or a terrorist attack.

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Once completed, Nobu Hotel will have 180 rooms, 16 suites, a private elevator bank leading up to the hotel tower, a separate check-in area and its own service staff.

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The octagonal white tower at Godrevy marks a reef called the Stones and has been in service since 1859.

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You have to get to the point where there is a safe and reliable service that compensates the artists, but also offers something people can't get at Tower Records.

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The "cell tower in a suitcase, " which creates a limited-range wireless network, would be used when service is unreliable or likely to attract unwanted listeners.

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