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    From Woody@harrogate3@ntlworld.com to uk.telecom on Thu Aug 14 18:59:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom

    I am noticing more and more telephone-type poles around mainly in rural
    areas that have at least four small panel antennas around the top. There
    is also sometimes a microwave dish mounted lower down the pole.

    Are these signal fillers or base units and are they 4G+5G or 5G only? If
    not what they **** are they?
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  • From Adrian Caspersz@email@here.invalid to uk.telecom on Wed Aug 20 20:52:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.telecom

    On 14/08/2025 18:59, Woody wrote:
    I am noticing more and more telephone-type poles around mainly in rural areas that have at least four small panel antennas around the top. There
    is also sometimes a microwave dish mounted lower down the pole.

    Are these signal fillers or base units and are they 4G+5G or 5G only? If
    not what they **** are they?

    That sounds plausible. There is also a requirement for maintain a
    network, if not for mobile phone use, at least something for remote
    metering.

    If you put the above question and location into Chat-GPT, it can find
    local council applications for siting of the equipment.
    --
    Adrian C
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