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Show ' M ' II...-. ;. ' ,'r' .r'is ' , 1 i l.J t j j j ' "-. l ; ...i r ! i ' ' ; 1 ; i t - - ' ' ' ' r - I. , ' ' " - - ; 1 : . ' ' Rapidwave Asks for Height Increase to Bring Faster Internet to Cedar Hills How does the height make it faster?" "The height doesn't make anything faster," Jacobson said. "What it allows us to do is install a different antenna system." Perry asked again about vandalism, wondering whether "if it gets higher, that's going to egg more people to throw rocks at it or shoes at it or climb on it or whatever?" "I can't answer that question. ques-tion. I don't know." Jacobson said. "This is the only area we've had vandalism in, and it's not our tallest tower, by far." He joked about putting a sign on it saying, Nuclear Radiation. "Well, obviously any vandalism van-dalism is not our loss, it's yours," Perry said, adding that he wasn't opposed to the increase. Council Member Ken Kirk moved to approve, contingent on the city offices getting the upgrade offered to the regular customers. The council all voted yea.. The agreement with Rapid-wave Rapid-wave was signed in 2008 and they pay the city a $250 monthly antenna fee, which increases four percent with each two-year extension of the agreement, Robinson said. by Harlow Clark Cedar Hills residents looking look-ing for faster Internet may soon have another option . Two weeks after Wade Robinson brought the city council a petition peti-tion for Comcast on his street, the council approved a change in its agreement with Rapid-wave Rapid-wave Wireless, which has antennas an-tennas on two of the city's water tanks. Rapidwave wants to increase in-crease the antenna on the water tank near Timp Cove Park from 7 to 17 feet. Introducing the item to the council December 7, Mayor Eric Richardson called Rapid-wave Rapid-wave "a positive force in the community" giving "more internet in-ternet choices in our city." Assistant City Manager Greg Robinson said, "The city has not received any complaints from any citizens" about either antenna, and Rapidwave has worked to blend them into the surroundings. He said he sees no problems with increasing the height. Council Member Jim Perry asked what the megabit rate would be. The material passed out to the council said 30, but he saw something in Orem advertising adver-tising 40. At this point Rapidwave owner, Sterling Jacobson, introduced in-troduced himself. "We haven't decided what it's going to be marketed as." "Well, what's it going to actually ac-tually be?" Perry said. "That's a good question. Download speeds will be between be-tween 20 and 35 megabits." "You're going to measure it and market it accordingly?" Perry asked. "That's exactly what we're doing now," Jacobson said. He added that currently the 10 megabit service offers five megabit download Speed and three megabit uploading. City offices and Public Pub-lic Works are getting service through Rapidwave now, and Perry asked if the city would get the higher speeds. Perry had another concern as well. Robinson said Rapid-wave Rapid-wave has "always very good about taking care of their equipment, equip-ment, and also ours," but Perry wondered about vandalism. Johnson said there has been some vandalism. A-cable to a camera was cut. Council Member Marisa Wright had a different concern. "Can I ask a really stupid question, ques-tion, which I'm going to ask. |