Mobile Phone Tower

The new mobile phone tower at Cocksedge Farm was erected last Monday, however it will be some weeks before it is working as an upgraded electricity supply needs to be installed. It also appears that the transmitters are not in place yet on the mast.

This tower is purely for supplying mobile phone coverage to Carlton and the surrounding roads (see the map below), and the coverage does not extend much further. The tower is so tall as it needs to be able to "see" into the valleys around the hill (such as down Acre Road and Brinkley Road) and it also needs to be able to "see" the nearest connected base station to be able to forward the phone calls to, which is on the water tower at Dullingham. So all our phone calls and data requests will come via Dullingham!