A large dead zone is to be closed in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. As Deutsche Telekom has announced, this is the largest dead zone on the ICE route. The national park administration, the Mecklenburg Lake District and Telekom’s district office agreed to build 14 new cell phone masts along the railway line between Neustrelitz and Waren, nine of which are in the Müritz National Park. The route is about 30 kilometers long and goes through the national park area. So far, train passengers on this route have had to pass through the dead zone for about 20 minutes.
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Those involved tried to find a compromise, on the one hand to improve mobile phone coverage, on the other hand to take into account the natural landscape. It looks As per the announcement It is now proposed that the new cell phone masts planned along the railway line will be 25 metres high instead of the usual 30 to 40 metres.
Building applications for autumn
The masts will not be higher than the trees, the landscape will not be disturbed, and species protection and automatic forest fire monitoring will be guaranteed, Telekom writes. The double number of masts compared to other practices ensures continuous mobile phone coverage along the railway line. Camera monitoring will not be affected, as well as ensuring that your data can be transmitted.
The impasse cannot be resolved immediately, some details need to be clarified before the building application is submitted to the district office later this summer. The office was already directly involved in the negotiations, so the building applications could be processed quickly, said Heiko Karger, district administrator of the Mecklenburg Lake District. The additional planning effort resulted from the fact that standard solutions are not suitable for the national park, Ulf Zimmermann, head of the Müritz national park office, explained.
To generally improve mobile phone reception on trains, Deutsche Bahn is running the “Gigabit Innovation Track” pilot project together with Ericsson, Telefonica Deutschland and Vantage Towers. Vantage Towers has built 13 new radio masts on a 12 kilometre-long test route in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. These are anchored into the ground using standardised base frames that can be built in series. There is no longer any need to lay complex foundations. According to an interim conclusion in May this year, the 15 metre-high masts fit into the landscape; in some places they did not need to be cleared.
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