A few months ago, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr made a bet with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher that the representative wasn’t brave enough to climb a cell tower.
The federal lawmaker proved the commissioner wrong during a stop in his district Thursday, when they both climbed a 110-foot T-Mobile cell tower in the village of Howard.
“I couldn’t back down from the dare,” said Gallagher, R-Green Bay. “I wanted to face my fears.”
Besides taking the opportunity to win a bet, the officials used their stop near Green Bay to raise awareness for broadband issues. Gallagher said the climb gave him a better understanding of “all the things we take for granted.”
“When you turn on your phone, you expect the Internet to work, you expect to be able to download anything you want at a moment’s notice, to stream whatever you want,” he said. “Well, it depends on infrastructure like this, and it depends on human beings that go up and repair this stuff when it’s broken.”
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