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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Mike Jackson
Apr. 25--The cellphone's growing popularity does more than fatten the wallets of mobile phone companies. School districts from Dallas to Fort Worth have been cashing in, too.
For more than 10 years, area school systems have been pulling in extra bucks by awarding leases to cellphone companies that attach antennas to stadium lights, flagpoles and other tall places, administrators say. And where there was no sufficient high point, the companies erected towers to bounce signals from one location to another.
"In hard times it's a way to try to pick up some revenue," Plano school district administrator Tom Kimbrough said. "And at the same time it serves the community."
Interest in antennas at schools appears to be...
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