Cell towers

Tens of thousands of Verizon wireless customers remain without service nearly seven hours after a massive outage struck the cell network shortly before noon Wednesday.

A group of Wading River residents have filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the development of a communications tower at...

The Riverhead Town Board allowed a new communications tower at the Wading River Fire Department headquarters to go forward, over the objections of residents, who say they may sue to stop the project.

The Riverhead Town Board will decide Tuesday whether to exempt the construction of a commercial communications tower at Wading River Fire Department headquarters from its local zoning laws.

Residents near the fire department headquarters told the Town Board they are worried about safety, health and aesthetic impacts of a proposed 190-foot tower.

Riverhead has settled a federal lawsuit brought by a Houston-based telecommunications company over its plan to erect a new cell tower on Fresh Pond Avenue.

Workers today used a large crane to lift the new steeple structure to the roof of the belfry on the Main Road, Aquebogue church and slowly lower it onto vertical steel masts.

The Riverhead Town Board approved Crown Castle's permit for a new new cell tower on Fresh Pond Avenue Tuesday, though in a court filing two weeks earlier, the town accused the company of making 'fraudulent misrepresentations' in its permit application documents.

A Houston-based telecommunications company and two wireless phone service providers have brought a federal lawsuit against the Town of Riverhead for alleged violations of federal law in its “unreasonable delays” and “effective denial” of an application to erect a 120-foot monopole cell tower on a Fresh Pond Avenue, Calverton site.