Marcus Says Wireless Industry Needs to Improve Appearance of Wireless Facilities
The wireless industry too often ignores the way its infrastructure installations look and that plays a big role in public opposition to siting requests, said Marcus Spectrum Solutions in a filing in docket 17-79 as the FCC considers revisions to…
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siting rules (see 1703300060). Marcus included photos of installations. One shows a typical white “pizza box” installation. “The basic ugliness of this installation is due to the mounting brackets and the mass of black cables that stream in various directions,” Marcus said. “This installation was on a 1 story building in Manhattan so was readily viewable from street level. The new 5G ‘pizza boxes’ will likely be [even] lower and their messiness more readily apparent.” Industry can build “truly aesthetic” base stations, but does so only when forced to by either local governments or property owners, the consultant said. “The general focus on infrastructure construction and maintenance for decades has been cost containment and speed of installation,” Marcus said. “There seems to have been little or no accountability for aesthetics.”