A cell tower or we can say cell site is a cellular telephone site to place the electronic communication equipments and antennas; this will be usually on the high place, on a radio mast or tower. This helps to create cells in a cellular network. The arrangement of the cell power is very important because it gives support to the antennae of phone and to other things such as control electronics one or more sets of transmitter/receivers transceivers a GPS receiver for timing (for CDMA2000/IS-95 or GSM systems) digital signal processors sheltering and primary and backup electrical power sources.
The international system of mobile network communication the proper term of cell site of the base transceiver station and the informal synonyms are the mobile phone mast or a base station. For the increased co-location of the multi mobile operators and the multi base location system the term “base location” sounds more perfect and appropriate to be located at a single site. Even a site hosting which will be hosting only one mobile can base on different locations it depends on the purpose of the operator. Each station will be serving different air interface technology.
Many sites have a requirement for these towers that they should not be obvious, they want these towers to be on hidden places such as mounted buildings or advertising towers. Preserved tree escape can often serve the hiding purpose; it can hide it inside the artificial tree. These types of installations are known as concealed cell site, they can be also referring to stealth cell sites.
There are many factors which are to tell the working range of these cell sites, it is no fixed number for this range. Mobiles depend on the range of this tower to get connected. The frequencies of the signals that are being used at a time also affect he range. The height of antenna over surrounding terrain is another factor that matters for this. In some phones there is time limitation such as GPRS. The power of the transmitter that has been rated also matters. They can also go up and down in bad weather condition. The height of the building also affect because it affect the ability of tower to absorb and reflect the signals.
It is a requirement to attach the antennas to the permanent location, and it happens normally, there are also carriers that maintain fleets of the vehicle that is known as cell-on-wheels that serve on a temporary site where there is no electric power is available. There is another device which can be used on permanent location for some time in case the permanent device gets damaged. This device is known as COWs.