I’m not worried about 5G health effects. I am worried about ascetics. There will be many times the number of towers, they have to be close to be effective and they are ugly.
The gal in the article talks about how bad it looks. The camera pans over and amidst the utility poles and power lines and light poles and store signs - there it is!
Although at another location there is one just out in the open and looks out of place. One would think they could just attach it to an existing sign or utility pole.
We have a small electrical sub-station at the end of the block. We never had a problem with our cell-phone service until they did some upgrades to the place. They had trucks moving dirt out of there for months - but no change on the surface!
A neighbor that works for a dirt-moving company that bid on the job (but lost it) said there were no details in the bid except for how much dirt would need to be moved.
He guessed that amount of dirt would mean the place was expanded 5 stories underground. They also installed a high-security double fence around the site and a double gate at the entrance. I’m guessing it has something to do with homeland security - it was a few years after 9/11 that they did it.
Oh - and our cell phones barely work anymore. Hopefully the 5G if it ever gets here will help.
Folks back when said the same about telegraph and later, telephone and electric poles.
Architecture and Building: A Journal of Investment and Construction, Volume 6 – March 26 1887