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Cellular lattice tower A cell tower in Peristeri, Greece. A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network.
In cities, each cell site may have a range of up to approximately 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km), while in rural areas, the range could be as much as 5 miles (8.0 km). It is possible that in clear open areas, a user may receive signals from a cell site 25 miles (40 km) away.
This limit of 63 × 550 metres is the maximum 35 kilometres that a device can be from a base station and is the upper bound on cell placement distance. A continually adjusted TA value avoids interference to and from other users in adjacent timeslots, thereby minimizing data loss and maintaining Mobile QoS (call quality-of-service).
For mobile phone services, these problems are tackled using: rooftop or hilltop positioning of base stations; many base stations (usually called "cell sites"). A phone can typically see at least three, and usually as many as six at any given time. "sectorized" antennas at the base stations.
More than 300 people in the Palomar area signed a petition protesting the location of a 125-feet cell phone tower at the corner of Man O War and Fort Harrods Road.
A microcell is a cell in a mobile phone network served by a low power cellular base station (tower), covering a limited area such as a mall, a hotel, or a transportation hub. A microcell is usually larger than a picocell, though the distinction is not always clear. A microcell uses power control to limit the radius of its coverage area.
This year, KGI Wireless requested to build a cellular tower at 3303 Serene Hills Drive on behalf of the city to decrease cell phone reception “holes” in the area, according to the agenda item.
Mobile cell sites are infrastructures transportable on trucks, allowing fast and easy installation in restricted spaces. Their use is strategic for the rapid expansion of cellular networks putting into service point-to-point radio connections as well as supporting sudden increases in mobile traffic in the case of extraordinary events (trade ...