Why do telephone company buildings have no windows?

[DrPizza]

Oh noes! Now they know we're on to them. Everyone can expect a visit soon.

 

[91TTZ]

The Verizon building near me in Philly has plenty of windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Tower

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: crab
Check this one out...

Wow, lol.

Maybe the answer that all of those who work at the Telecos are sadistic summabitches? lol

I've been in that one. There's only a few floors that we currently have equipment on.

The building I work in down here has about 8 windows, mostly in the stairwells.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
The Verizon building near me in Philly has plenty of windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Tower

Eh this looks like a mixed use building to me that Verizon purchased the naming rights to...

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

None of the above answers have been satisfactory.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit

Originally posted by: AFB
It's extra cost that's not really needed.

Besides, hypothetically assume there's a really bad hurricane or storm. You don't want to increase your risk of loosing something to flood or blown out windows.

My father once told me a story of going through Corpus Christi, TX after Hurricane Carla had come through. There was a Bell Telephone building similar to what the OP described that had been reduced to a steel skeleton.
No windows doesn't mean no loss...

Nothing is ever 100% full proof. but cmon...

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

"Like all the other telecom fortresses, this was designed to withstand considerable nuclear blast and fall-out and be self-sufficient for long periods of time."
In reference to the NY Building.

Makes sense.

 

[imported_Imp]

I'd kill myself if I were in a windowless building. So happy I'm in one now; my old building had some windows, but I was put in the middle with all the blinds down. If only they put me higher up, the upper floors have an amazing view of the Lake a block away here...

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
The Verizon building near me in Philly has plenty of windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Tower

that's an office building, i use to work there

 

[KK]

Also, we have many underground buildings that were put in because of the nuclear threat.

Here's Lillyville, PA site. My father used to work out of this one for awhile. I don't believe AT&T still owns or uses it any more.

 

[jadinolf]

Now the truth.

They count their money in their buildings. The money is stacked over four feet high and the phone companies don't want you to see how much they take in.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Kev

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
The Verizon building near me in Philly has plenty of windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Tower

that's an office building, i use to work there

Yes, it's an office building, but doesn't Verizon own it? I thought they had it built?

 

[1prophet]

Maybe this?



In the 1964 presidential election, Johnson ver Goldwater, there was a campaign issue of U.S. preparedness against the U.S.S.R. Nuclear threat. The Goldwater side asserted that we were vulnerable to EMP. The Johnson Administration claimed there was no such thing as EMP. At the same time, the IEE's (IEEE) technical journal, Spectrum, just happen to publish an article, written by several Bell Labs engineers, on how to harden telephone communications systems against EMP.


The article showed how a repeater building could be constructed using interconnected conductors in the building's construction such that they acted as a "squirrel cage rotor" as in an A.C. motor--a shorted turn; this was covered by continuous copper Faraday shielding, allowing no unexposed openings. Additionally, there were buried triple shielded coax conduits coming and going from the building, with four #8 copper cables buried adjacent to the conduits.

 

[spidey07]

weather, EMP, nuclear bomb whatever. Same thing. Keep telecommunications up no matter what. Where do you think the N+(whatever) redundancy kick came from?

bellcore and the ITU really knew what they were doing. These guys were engineers on steroids with some redbull just for more edge - they saught the indestructable. Shame we don't have BellLabs at it's peak around anymore.

 

[FlashG]

Most Telco Central Offices (CO?s) were constructed during the "cold war". They had lead shielding for equipment protection. The lack of windows is also for security, storm protection and cooling.

A lot of the Katrina damage was at smaller CDO's or RSO?s that were of wood construction (mostly for economic serving area reasons) and up on stilts. I know a tek at Hialeah that couldn't even hear Andrew when it hit S Florida.

 

[Pepsi90919]

the 3M building here is all blacked out glass with 'private property' warning signs all along the perimiter of the property (grass).