Unobtrusive antennas in environmentally sensitive locations

AlanDick, enabled a major UK cellular operator to improve network coverage in environmentally sensitive locations.

The designs chosen were lifelike representations of telephone and electricity poles, the latter having exact replicas of transformer housings, which house the microwave dishes linking the tiny, low-power base stations (known as microcells) into the main telephone network.

Inside these realistic housings, antennas are effectively invisible, creating no visual disturbance whatsoever. They fit unobtrusively into almost any environment, harmonizing with other amenities.

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"People today expect seamless mobile coverage wherever they go but increasingly resent any visual intrusion," said a spokesman for AlanDick. "These low profile designs are a well suited solution and satisfy an increasing demand from operators, planning authorities and environmentalists for cellular sites that do not offend the eye".

The poles have a bark effect external finish that surrounds the feeder cables and antenna within. The appearance is so realistic that examples were given permission for erection in a Yorkshire Dales National Park where antenna structures were previously outlawed entirely.

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