Cell phone tower 'trees' to take root, will bear high-volume data

New mobile towers not only look nicer but are compact, cheaper to build & energy-efficient

Look closer and that large tulip on the side of the road as you drive into Chandigarh or the majestic palm tree providing a nice touch beside a villa in Hyderabad is, in fact, a mobile tower, a monopole tower to be precise.

Increasingly, Reliance Jio is camouflaging its mobile powers as it goes about powering its 4G services across the country.  Among the pioneers in this field, it is experimenting with camouflaging ugly towers to stop inflicting eyesores on a landscape or skyline. These are not real plants or trees but experiments by Jio and tower infrastructure players like