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Originally Posted by Pierre
I don't have any problem, and I don't think I know more than you.
I just have a heathy scepticism on taking things at face face value, especially on a forum such as this, from people I do not know.
Sorry I annoyed you.
Those links to google maps, I went on street view and tbh i can't see any mobile masts of any type at either garage, sorry if I'm being blind.
I'm not being awkward I'm genuinely interested as it's not something you see usually.
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I couldn't work out how to link directly to the street view images from my iPhone but those links should get you close. If you have the Shell garage on your left the Vodafone mast is about 100 yards further down the road. The telephone poles in front of the Shell garage feed it with overhead fibre. You can see the little yellow warning stickers on the bottom of them. It goes overhead to be telephone pole next to the mast and then dives underground into a small BT pavement pit where it links into the cabinet for the mast.
In the other link the Vodafone mast is up on the hill next to the car dealership (in the car park). It is fed by overhead fibre which then goes underground briefly as it has to go under the old railway bridge. It then goes overhead again to a telephone pole that's actually in the car park of the car dealership where it then goes underground again to link into the mast's cabinet.
It's more common than you'd imagine. I feel if I was a mobile network I'd want to insist my masts were fed with purely underground fibre, a falling tree would knock the whole thing off.