Religious mobile mast

Companies are finding innovative ways to disguise ungly and unwanted mobile phone antenna masts, as Deutsche Welle found out (via The Register)

An Austrian company offers Pine needle and trees with leaves "wrappings". Kaal in Holland and the British company, Francis & Lewis, sell trees that can be "built in a day" and look real.

Prices start at around €25,000 ($30,200). And if you prefer chimney masts and crucifixes for churches, they are in the catalogues too.

Of course, some congregations are not willing to see Christ on a cross, with antennae sticking out. The mayor of Schwabhausen, in Catholic Bavaria, has come out against such an antenna in his village church. But others have gone ahead: "Everyone recognizes the church now," said Johannes de Fallois, pastor at a church in Neuburg.

Regine | 9:16 AM | |
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