Do you have a mobile phone? I have 2 (one work and one mine) and some people I know have 3 or more and they can be very important items to have. However, of all those people that use a mobile phone, how many really wouldn't mind a mast placed within 100ft of your back garden?
This is the problem we face in Leighton Buzzard and Linslade. Mobile networks need to fill in gaps in their coverage yet so many people do not want a phone mast visible from their window and I would have to agree with them, I wouldn't really like to look out on an obvious one.
Ofcom grant "code powers" to mobile operators which gives them the right to install masts after discussion with planners even if planners do not want a mast, that is not necessarily the end of the matter. Ofcom also though does encourage mast sharing so we have one mast with a number of company's transmitters on it.
This does not always seem to happen so I would be interested to hear your views on this. If we can work with the mobile phone companies whose services the majority of us use to encourage them to mast share and find more suitable sites we may find a solution to this common complaint.
4 comments:
they may bring some kind of bad vibe but we all need them i cant even think of some1 that dont have a mobile as even the 'oldies' do nower days.
better reception is wat we need!!
or just like me go 3g all the way!
No one wants one near their houses or schools etc. I'm no expert but is there any reason why they couldn't go along railway lines? You've already got some sort of electronic activity from the overhead powerlines so couldn't you just use the things holding them up to support masts too?
Why do we need to have highly visible mobile phone masts, when they can be built into the top of lamp posts, or disguised as architectural 'features' on a building.
Also why does each operator have to have their own antenna, surely they can all use the same one. After all the BBC only needs one antenna at each location to broadcast all its FM stations, not one for each station.
UPDATE 7th JULY 2007
Even hidden masts can cause problems. T-Mobile wanted to put one up at The Clay Pipe on Apennine Way hidden in a flag pole but decided against it when concerns arose over customers sitting so close to it and school children just meters away.
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