Hidden masts

Envirocom, a South African firm, is addressing the aesthetic side of cellular communications:

Mobile phone operators go to extraordinary lengths to conceal the masts that form their networks. They are being disguised as chimneys, clocks, drainpipes, telegraph poles, and even weathervanes.

A firm in Europe is putting up the masts as fake trees -- green, with branches and foliage, and micro-wave capability.