You may already know that many big urban areas are a nightmare for mobile phone companies to install cell tower transmitters. The environmentalist-assisted paranoid residents think the cell transmitters are harmful (see the facts here).
San Francisco has a
new wave of cell permits underway. The big cell tower users are
slogging through the arrogant stupidity of local politics, but a new force has joined
them.
Google and Apple have told the mayor and political powers that they intend to move employment out of San Francisco if the City doesn't create a rational cell tower policy.
What is interesting is not Google, who's importance in mobile phones was evident weeks ago when Google joined with Verizon to create a new 'hands-off-cell-phones' policy in Congress and before the FCC (the hands-off policy will win), because Google sees its future in Android.
What is interesting is to see that Apple also sees its future in mobile phones AND is making political noises in that arena too.