{"id":3439,"date":"2011-02-16T08:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:12","slug":"no-more-massive-cell-phone-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/no-more-massive-cell-phone-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Massive Cell Phone Towers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Telecoms-Mast.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-383\" title=\"Telecoms Mast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Telecoms-Mast.jpg\" alt width=\"134\" height=\"202\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-383 lazyload\" title=\"Telecoms Mast\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20134%20202%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"134\" height=\"202\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Telecoms-Mast.jpg\"><\/a>The end might be in sight for mammoth cell phone masts causing a blot on the landscape.&nbsp; Those in the cell phone industry are looking into the possibility of creating much smaller antennae, which could be placed outside buildings, on lamp posts, or even carried by hand.&nbsp; As well as cutting out the unsightly blots on the landscape, the small solution could even put an end to slow data speeds and those \u2018dead spot\u2019 areas where cell phone transmissions break up.<\/p>\n<p>The Mobile World Congress event, the largest such cell phone trade show in the world, which began on Monday in Barcelona, will see the first demonstration of these \u201csmall cell\u201d antennas courtesy of some big name technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see more and more towers that become bigger and bigger, with more and bigger antennas that come to obstruct our view and clutter our landscape and are simply ugly,\u201d admits the head of the wireless division of telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent, Wim Sweldens.&nbsp; \u201cWhat we have realized is that we, as one of the major mobile equipment vendors, are partially if not mostly to blame for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweldens\u2019 company is set to demonstrate one possible solution, a \u201clightRadio cube\u201d at the event.&nbsp; The antenna is about the size of a Rubik\u2019s Cube (hence the name) and Alcatel-Lucent foresees the day when the cubes, which just need some small electrical power and an optical fibre to connect to a phone network to function, could replace the monster masts.&nbsp; Trials are set to begin in September, and the cubes could become available commercially as early as next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end might be in sight for mammoth cell phone masts causing a blot on the landscape.  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