CTC serves as Tower Coordinator for a number of local governments, processing applications and providing engineering analysis for placement of telecommunications facilities. CTC marshals applications for two-way radio, cellular, and PCS services from start to finish and recommends action by the jurisdiction.

CTC's work as Tower Coordinator in Montgomery County, Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland and Carroll County, Maryland includes serving as a liaison between the various service providers (such as Sprint, AT&T, Cellular One, Nextel, and Bell Atlantic, among others) and numerous interested agencies. CTC ensures that each application conforms with the requirements in the Montgomery County Code and the Montgomery County Zoning Ordinance for the siting process and is appropriate, considering the policies and needs of the involved County agencies. CTC resolves any questions regarding accuracy and completeness of the applications, verifies the zoning of the proposed site, ensures that the applications meet the zoning requirements for the zone of the proposed site, and conducts physical inspections of sites as warranted to determine potential adverse impact on the community. CTC works with agencies and carriers to facilitate co-location of facilities in order to minimize proliferation of obtrusive tower structures in the community -- a key objective of the tower siting process.

CTC's staff provides administrative and engineering staff support to the Tower Siting Committee members, and provides guidance on related engineering issues as they arise (such as, for example, interpretations of FCC guidelines for RF emissions, identification of potential conflicts related to antenna siting, and general explanations of the technical aspects of cellular PCS and RF technology). In addition to reviewing all the technical aspects of applications, CTC prepares all the necessary documentation regarding the application, records minutes of the meetings, leads the Committee through its review of each application, and in the absence of the Committee Chair, CTC staff chair the monthly meeting. CTC staff members also meet with or confer by telephone with interested citizens or community groups to discuss any concerns they may have or provide information to them regarding a particular tower siting proposed for an area.

In the two-way radio area, CTC worked with the City of Cincinnati to design and implement a network to support the audio and control links for the city-wide emergency radio system. The network linked remote receiver locations to the central control system.

 CTC provided consulting support for the City of Alexandria for the upgrade of the transmission link to the Alexandria Police transmitter site from a microwave connection to dedicated fiber. CTC reviewed plans to ensure compatibility between the radio system and the fiber transmission network.