World's tallest building has own cell network

The world's tallest building (at least for another year or so we think), the Taipei 101 (at 1666 feet high, and yes, 101 floors) in Taiwan has contracted with Ericsson to provide cellphone service within the building, with support for all the major cellular networks, from GSM 900/1800 to CDMA 800/2000, and WCDMA. The system will also work seamlessly even when patrons travel on the elevators, which travel up to 1000 meters per minute (about 55 feet per second). We're totally getting Ericsson to do our building, too.

[Chainsaw Jackson @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

Yo, your building needs some work.

[macstibs @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

HAHAHA ... Nice one. Kofi must be pissed.

[615-343-3763 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

1000 meters per minute is closer to 55 feet per second than five feet per second. Five feet per second would be a nice 6 minute ride to the top, as long there were no stops along the way.

[F. Villa @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

United Nations building, eh?

[Jason Brennan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

Umm, why is it that every building claims to be the tallest? The CN Tower is taller than this, and it is taller than the "Freedom Tower" or whatever its called will be.

http://www.toronto.com/profile?id=147417

(Its measured in meters, but 553 m = 1814.3 ft, taller than 1666 ft or 1776 ft)

[Jason Brennan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

Umm, why is it that every building claims to be the tallest? The CN Tower is taller than this, and it is taller than the "Freedom Tower" or whatever its called will be.

http://www.toronto.com/profile?id=147417

(Its measured in meters, but 553 m = 1814.3 ft, taller than 1666 ft or 1776 ft)

[o0o0o @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

Sears tower is still the tallest building with a useable floor. All the others stake their claim by adding huge antennas.

[Scott @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

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1000 meters per minute is closer to 55 feet per second than five feet per second. Five feet per second would be a nice 6 minute ride to the top, as long there were no stops along the way

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That wouldnt be a 6 minute ride to the top. the main elevators in the CN Tower travel 22km/15mile per hour and take bout 61 seconds to get to 352m/1151ft (other elevators go the rest of the distance).

And as far as anyone else is concerned the CN Tower is considered the World's Tallest Freestanding Structure on Land and the World's Tallest Building according to Guinness World Records ( http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gwr5/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=49675 ) and according to Guinness records, Taipei 101 is the World's Tallest Officebuilding.

[615-343-3763 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

It would be a six minute ride to the top if it traveled at 5 fps, which it does not. If it were to travel the entire 1667 feet at 1000 meters per minute it would only take about 30 seconds to get to the top. That is pretty quick. I bet it takes longer to travel to the top of the engadget building than 30 seconds. Just a guess.

[Pierre @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

Actually you can get to the top of the Engadget building in about 25 seconds if you run, the basement door is open, and EngadgetMom is not in the hall.

[dhi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

I scent a bit of Ericsson marketing here...

In Hong Kong most buildings have in house Cell Networks. I worked on the 88 storey Two IFC tower...
http://www.central18.com.hk/main.html
...in Central doing AV installations and the cell network was a given. Most office buildings here of whatever age already have cell coverage in lifts and the subway system has for years.

Tower envy? - How about the 102 storey Kowloon MTR Tower being built now...
http://www.mtr.com.hk/eng/properties/content-overview-kol.htm#others

But the funny thing is that this is all old hat. You should see what they are doing in Shanghai!

[AznFX @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

yeah, Taipei 101 wont make "another year or so"

that thing was so funny, it dropped glass from the top to the pavement below right after it got built, not sure if someone got hit, but many peeps there saw it RL

[robert @ Dec 19th 2005 1:48AM]

The comment on Shanghai, what IS planned for Shanghai in the area of "extremely tall buildings"?. Jian Mao Tower is still the tallest I believe. ANy World record project ongoing?