Wireless

Wireless

by Mike Masnick




Hiding Mobile Phone Towers

from the they-gotta-go-somewhere dept

These days with the quest for "universal coverage" becoming more important to mobile phone companies they have to be more creative than ever to figure out how to hide new cell towers. This story from the BBC details how a company that used to build the sets for Aardman Animation (think Wallace and Gromit) is now working out ways to help the mobile phone companies hide their towers in fake chimneys, flag poles, or other architectural shields.

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