I looked onto a similar solution and what I found is that for an outside company this is not viable because the power monopolies charge too much to "rent" their poles
Up in my neck of the woods (NH) most towns won't let new poles be erected because it will obstruct our beautiful views. This is why I looked into it (mainly for Cellular).
If the power monopolies were to deploy this technology themselves they would be able to make it work and even have several fold purpose (cellular, and Broadband, and maybe even a repeater setup during power failures (this would really piss off the hams)). I realize that the repeater idea would require solar to make it really work and this is exactly why they won't go after this idea.
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I looked onto a similar solution and what I found is that for an outside company this is not viable because the power monopolies charge too much to "rent" their poles Up in my neck of the woods (NH) most towns won't let new poles be erected because it will obstruct our beautiful views. This is why I looked into it (mainly for Cellular). If the power monopolies were to deploy this technology themselves they would be able to make it work and even have several fold purpose (cellular, and Broadband, and maybe even a repeater setup during power failures (this would really piss off the hams)). I realize that the repeater idea would require solar to make it really work and this is exactly why they won't go after this idea.