New tower at Mystery Creek?

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BerG

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#99961 30-Mar-2012 19:29

I notice a new comms tower of some kind has gone up at Mystery Creek this week.

Does anyone know what it is for?

I'll take a picture of it next time I go past.

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#602700 30-Mar-2012 19:35

It's most likely one of the RBI towers being built by Vodafone:

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#602702 30-Mar-2012 20:04

They need to boost capacity there as there were probs with it during the last fieldays

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/5156554/Fieldays-phones-fail

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#602709 30-Mar-2012 20:24

DjShadow: They need to boost capacity there as there were probs with it during the last fieldays

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/5156554/Fieldays-phones-fail

Not related to the Fieldays RBI site to improve coverage in general,

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#602710 30-Mar-2012 20:25

BerG: I notice a new comms tower of some kind has gone up at Mystery Creek this week.

Does anyone know what it is for?

I'll take a picture of it next time I go past.

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#602827 31-Mar-2012 10:08

Excellent.

We dont get ADSL here for some bizarre reason (10 mins from hamilton, 2 minutes from Hamilton Intl Airport, 10 mins from Cambridge, 1 min from a school) and XT coverage is poor for mobile broadband.

We are also not in line of sight of any of the wireless towers.

Hopefully this might give us some better options.

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#602867 31-Mar-2012 12:31

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#611605 19-Apr-2012 01:16

From what i've seen there, Vodafone almost always brings in a COW during large events. It seems to get hammered quite a lot during Parachute as well.
Theres a telecom tower on site which broadcasts CDMA, 850mhz XT and 2100mhz XT (as well as a DSLAM too, on an unrelated note). The vodafone one is a decent distance away so i'm not surprised if they are building one.