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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Re:Your cell tower has been crushed into a cube by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-07 07:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"reducing greenhouse emissions"
How much longer are these 'caring' tossers who run businesses going to run with this bullshit?
www.climatedepot.com
There IS no man made global warming. There is no global warming, period.
Re:Your cell tower has been crushed into a cube by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-07 07:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

There IS no man made global warming. There is no global warming, period.
Says an Anonymous, with no links.
Myself, I had to shovel several feet of global warming in the past few weeks, so don't tell me there's no such thing.