Mobile phone wireless links operate over quite limited distances. Each phone has to connect to a local communications base station which in turn is connected to a national communications network.

Mobile phone operators require an increasing number of base stations to ensure good service to mobile phones across the country. These base stations can be built on towers or poles or on building roof tops. You will also find tiny base stations inside shopping centres. The challenge facing the operators is to find enough sites for all their base station requirements.

Operators are seeking extra sites to complete their current generation GSM (2G) networks, and are identifing sites for their new UMTS (3G) service. Over the next five years operators will be seeking more sites to enhance their 3G capacity.

There are also emergency services and wireless broadband networks being rolled out, and QS4 can ensure that the churches are represented to these organisations as well.

This means that there is an immediate demand for certain church sites to augment the current networks, and others will be required in the future as the demand for sites increases.

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