Cell phone providers are increasingly hiding their 4G LTE and 5G antennas in all manner of things, including fake cacti.
Along the roadsides of posh North Scottsdale, Arizona are some tall Saguaro cacti, but look a little closer and you'll notice something strange. Many of the cacti are exactly 24-feet-tall, and they all look alike.
The Scottsdale cacti are actually 4G LTE and 5G fixed wireless antennas, and they're not alone. In the Eastern U.S. and the Denver, Colorado area, some of the beautiful pine trees are actually antennas, while in the South, antennas are masquerading as palm trees.And, it's not just trees that you need to be suspicious of. In Texas, antennas are hiding out in city recycling bins, while in the Midwest, some of the ubiquitous water towers aren't what they seem.
5G operates at higher wave frequencies and shorter millimeter wavelengths than 4G. This causes 5G waves to be more easily blocked by objects, such as houses or trees. Even leaves can block a 5G signal. To counter this, 5G uses"small cell" antennas, which are around the size of a pizza box, and it needs lots of them.5G antennas must be set up every couple of hundred feet apart, which is around the length of a city block.
Companies such as ConcealFab and Valmont Industries are creating concealment solutions for both 4G LTE and 5G antennas. This cost of concealment must be figured in when computing the cost to roll out 5G networks. Cities often settle on two or three basic types of concealment configurations for small cell antennas, then they re-use those designs at each site.
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