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Incredibly ugly. I assume that these are either meant for mmwave or are just some marketing push? Because 5g doesn't require new towers.
Who cares? I don't understand why people always complain about how cell towers look when they're in the middle of...a concrete and steel city. Oh yea, the tower is SO ugly in how it interrupts your view of the concrete building behind it...
I can understand a cell tower in the middle of the woods or something.
Those buildings are brick. Also I think most people prefer trees sticking out of the sidewalk than gigantic tubes with tampons on top. NYC isn't that good at it, but urban design is just as important as suburban design, probably even more important.
I didn't mean literally concrete. Just look at the image
In addition to the "ugly" tower you have
You sound like one of those NIMBY people who complain about the "ugly" cell towers and then in the same breath complain about their crappy cell signal
I mean, NYC isn't exactly a clean city, sure. I think NIMBYs are more likely to complain about there being apartment buildings in general. Traditional cell towers can be mounted on buildings and painted to match the bricks in an urban environment. If this was the only way to get cell signal in NYC, then I guess, but I have 5g at my apartment in Stockholm, and all of our cell towers are mounted on buildings.
Here's an example of a pretty 5g tower in a nice looking city environment on Karlavägen in downtown Stockholm:
Kinda ugly with the 4 lane street in this picture, but you can see how cities can have both trees and 5g without tampons.
Honestly, my main issue is just with how thick that pole is. If it was just another light pole I think it would be fine, but that thing is thicker than the trees, and even traffic light poles. It dominates the sidewalk space.
Ah, I see the confusion. Those small site towers are great for dense urban areas like the cities you guys have in the EU and major major (like NYC) cities here in the US
Anywhere else in the US though, they suck because they just don't have the range and power and our cities tend to sprawl. Even in our biggest cities, once you get out of the core, the sprawl gets ridiculous really really fast. These are what you'll typically find around here:
Oh and believe me, those NIMBYs will start complaining about multifamily housing followed by the homeless in the second breath after their rant on cell towers
We have these in Europe too
Article doesn't say, but likely. Normally when they're deployed that densely, they're either very low power spot coverage or high frequency which doesn't have much penetration/range.
These look like mmWave towers. We have them in my city, they’re more comparable to streetlights (often installed on top of one) than traditional cell towers. They’re mostly used for home internet rather than cellphones.
How much less obtrusive do you think they can make it?
Here are a few examples, on how to.