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Originally Posted by Qtx
With mobile masts the complaints are often due to the fact they are transmitting waves rather than just them not looking too pretty. For a trial I doubt many will worry if cables are hanging from a phone pole, especially if it means they get gigabit internet.
Wondered why they never made lamp posts multi-purpose and split it in to say 4 sections (possibly easy removable/replaced modular type design) with a shared section down one side, and allow different companies to utilise each section inside. No one really batters an eyelid with those kind of poles being there so why not hide stuff inside. Companies would start designing equipment that fitted inside that form factor. Unless I am missing something obvious?
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Actually, for mobile masts, councils are not permitted to consider the "transmitting waves" at all in determining outcome or considering public objections. Hence, the most common reason they are declined or rejected is based on appearance. Not to say people don't
complain but rather there is no legal basis to consider their complaint and (unless the council is breaking the law or being incompetent, which
does sometimes happen) it will be rejected without even being considered.
Lamp posts are an interesting issue. They are indeed ideal for some sorts of telecoms deployments, although a lot were built back when telecoms and utility regulation were nothing like they are today. However, while I have seen a few cities abroad where they are used for mobile microcells and/or public wifi access, several times in the UK I've seen plans for similar deployments shelved because operators could not agree terms with the councils and/or utility and/or land owners