iBurst’s base station battle

Sounds like some s****y southern suburbs areas. Sw@nky:rolleyes:

Residents will absoultely not have a tower in their area. Then they winge about the lack of signal/reception. Idiots.
 
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I wonder what the concerns are?

"No if the tower is too close to my home then the mind-control beams will penetrate the tin foil!"
 
I wonder what these people are complaining about? They want internet but when things needs to happen the object. What a bunch of ....
From Vodacom or Iburst reps on this site, what are the objections and is it of any major concerns?
 
These guys need to start sharing towers... we can't have 50 towers in each neighbourhood !

One company should be setting them up and then renting space on the tower for different vendors.
 
Nerfherder said:
These guys need to start sharing towers... we can't have 50 towers in each neighbourhood !

One company should be setting them up and then renting space on the tower for different vendors.
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The price of property will be ultimately affected by their cr@ppy towers in our back garden. I certainly would be desperately unhappy to have a tower in close proximity to my house. :(

Besides, why do we want iBurst? :D
 
McT said:
property prices will be affected? :)
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Is this a bad thing? In India you property price shoots up if you have a tower in your garden... its even higher if its painted bright red and white :p Shows you where their priorities lie :D
 
Nerfherder said:
These guys need to start sharing towers... we can't have 50 towers in each neighbourhood !

One company should be setting them up and then renting space on the tower for different vendors.
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And if the WISP's all need different technologies?
Then the towers will be enormous and stick out like sore thumbs to cater for all the different antenna's...
 
Then there is also the possibility of sharing the radio network up to the base station equipment.
 
ben dover said:
And if the WISP's all need different technologies?
Then the towers will be enormous and stick out like sore thumbs to cater for all the different antenna's...
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How forcing all wireless providers to use the same technology?
 
ben dover said:
And if the WISP's all need different technologies?
Then the towers will be enormous and stick out like sore thumbs to cater for all the different antenna's...
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A tower is just a pole sticking out of the ground... it doesn't force you to stick to any wireless technology. Take a look at a lot of the towers out there a a lot of them have like one aerial... what a waste !

Even if two service providers share a tower (I know you can do this) it will be better for us... AND we will have more coverage.
 
Does anyone what some of the so called concerns are?
 
So why don't they do what they normally do when they run into coverage problems?

Place an order on Telkom to provide the link and the blame them if they cannot overcome all the hurdles that they could not overcome themselves!!!
 
Why cant there be a small tower on top of every building above 3 stories. If there are 50 in on area then each one does not need to be as high.

I certainly don't want to live in an area where I cant get good broadband.

Environmental impact studies can be very one sided. Do they consider the good benefit that comes from even 1 person using their car less cos they now have broadband.

The building owners get a healthy payment for use of their site so they should be glad.
 
Neotel, you are a FIXED line operator, not a wireless operator... so maybe you should use that has a hint, and actually provide fixed line...

As for all the base stations for wireless and cellular providers, it's really starting to become visual pollution, and as more and more studies are starting to show, there are the health risks that are associated with living/working/going to school in close proximity to these towers.
 
Alchemist said:
Neotel, you are a FIXED line operator, not a wireless operator... so maybe you should use that has a hint, and actually provide fixed line...

As for all the base stations for wireless and cellular providers, it's really starting to become visual pollution, and as more and more studies are starting to show, there are the health risks that are associated with living/working/going to school in close proximity to these towers.
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Okay, first, RTFA. They're talking about iBurst, not Neotel.

Then, realise that there is still no conclusive evidence that Non-Ionizing radiation causes any health problems. For every study that says there is, theres one that says there isn't.

I think its because the iBurst "intelligent antenna" setups are just butt-ugly.
 
daffy said:
Okay, first, RTFA. They're talking about iBurst, not Neotel.

Then, realise that there is still no conclusive evidence that Non-Ionizing radiation causes any health problems. For every study that says there is, theres one that says there isn't.

I think its because the iBurst "intelligent antenna" setups are just butt-ugly.
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WTF does that even mean?
And for every study that says there isnt, there is one that says there is. ;)
 
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