Telecom companies pay churches to mount antennas on their steeples. The National Cathedral in Washington gets about $100,000 a year from Motorola for its 234-foot tower. Some churches are even building new steeples just to collect the rental fees.
Due to the height of churches and specifically the steeples on churches, different telecom companies will pay these churches for access to their steeple. So an example is National Cathedral in Washington. Guess how much they're paid by Motorola every single year? $1,000 a month? $100,000 a year just for access to their 234-foot tower. And some churches are even building steeples. They don't even have a steeple, but they're like, look, I heard this other church is getting $100K a year. We want that.
