- Date
- 2013-08
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationinfrastructuretechnologycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 2013 Beaver Beacon reports AT&T antenna work and Verizon 4G tower construction on Beaver Island, including removal of the original EMS guyed tower. It also says peak-summer afternoon and evening connections slowed to roughly one-fifteenth of listed DSL package speeds as local bandwidth demand outgrew the 2008 system’s capacity.
Evidence limits
The report preserves the newspaper’s observations and stated performance comparison. It is not a carrier engineering record, a speed-test dataset, or proof of completed island-wide 4G coverage.
Sources
- Residents reported very slow service and said TDS acknowledged an island volume/bandwidth problem. This is customer testimony and a reported carrier response, not a TDS engineering report, speed-test dataset, or proof of a specific remedy.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 07 · t007847
- Beaver Beacon, September 2013, "Bandwidth?"Reports AT&T antenna work, Verizon 4G tower construction, removal of the original EMS guyed tower, and afternoon and evening DSL slowdowns during the peak summer season. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held September issue scan confirms the communications-infrastructure report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island reports summer bandwidth strain during 2013 cell-tower upgrades”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bandwidth-demand-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Jewelry and Joe Moore, "SLOW Internet on Island," Beaver Island Forum, August 9–10, 2014. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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