Inside a Vodafone cell tower: photos

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As Vodafone begins to roll out its massive network upgrade, the company gave ZDNet Australia an exclusive look into one of its cell towers located in North Sydney.

(Credit: Josh Taylor/ZDNet Australia)

The site located in Artarmon just north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a joint venture with Vodafone and Optus.

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You can see clearly here that Optus would have better reception as their antennas are serving 4 planes of reception.
Vodafone only servers three planes of reception.

cootifiedcootified March 18th, 2011
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Don't know about that, triangles and squares are both circular.

whitecrowmanwhitecrowman March 18th, 2011
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18th Mar 11- I tried to exit Vodafony after 6+ months on almost non-existent data access and patchy phone reception/dropped calls etc but they can't even let me go without stuffing it up. I have a smartphone that today was locked after porting and won't work as they can't unlock it for a further 10 working days. Their admin is woeful, their service for accessing email and internet via phone doesn't work in most locations around Sydney & all the while they take no responsibility for their failures or wrong information they provide. I will need to buy a cheap phone and not use internet with my new provider to get me over the next few weeks until they fix their issues and let me go. More expensive by me and more problems & frustrating calls on hold with Vodafraud. Great customer service - NOT !!!

vodafraudvodafraud March 18th, 2011
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@vodafraud
What does your rant have to do with the inside of a cell tower??

whodatmanwhodatman March 23rd, 2011
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The reception depends on the beamwidth of each sector antenna (among other factors), for example 90 degrees vs 120 degrees of antenna coverage. It also depends on where the antenna's are pointed/aligned and where the network designers specified they need to cover. If you look at the antenna pictures, you will notice that on one side both companies either do not have an antenna, or have antenna's pointed away from that side.

elbertelbert April 23rd, 2011
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