Alcatel-Lucent Shrinks Mobile Cell Tower To Small Cube

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 7, 2011 @06:44AM from the sprinkle-lightly-over-entire-country dept.

pbahra writes "French mobile telephone infrastructure manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent today unveiled technology that shrinks a mobile cell tower to a box the size of a Rubik's cube, potentially changing the structure of the cellular network, reducing greenhouse emissions and bringing mobile broadband into new areas. According to Wim Sweldens, president of wireless activities for Alcatel-Lucent, by reducing the technology from something the size of a filing cabinet, networks would reduce the total cost of ownership by half, as well as halving the global CO2 emissions from the mobile industry — currently equivalent of 15 million cars a year."

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More like a Hellraiser Puzzlebox by Sir_Dill · 2011-02-07 07:31 · Score: 3, Interesting

I don't know about anyone else, but it looked more like a hellraiser puzzle box than a rubiks cube.
Disaster response by grassy_knoll · 2011-02-07 07:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

Perhaps a goofy question, but could the Alcatel-Lucent device in TFA be used to establish cellular coverage in an disaster area?
Seems like small cube + antenna + battery bank + solar panels || generators would be portable enough for, say, a red cross disaster response team...

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