Avondale (Vodafone/Woosh)

Address: Blockhouse Bay and Rosebank Roads, Avondale

November 2004: Closer-up of Vodafone’s site.

November 2004: Closer-up of Woosh Wireless’s site.

Bedford Road (Telecom)

June 2004

Pikington Road (Telecom)

June 2004

Grampian Road (Vodafone)

Address: Grampian Road and Lammermoor Drive, Kohimarama

June 2004

Ellerslie Motorway (Vodafone)

Address: Hurst and Roberts Street, Ellerslie

March 2004

Abbotts Way (Telecom)

Address: Michaels Avenue, Ellerslie

March 2004

This is a very clever design, putting antennas on top of a light pole. Telecom has done this elsewhere as well — such as the Mission Bay site for example. Vodafone has their Abbotts Way site nearby — in fact it is just a minute’s walk to the right of the picture. It of a more obvious design and the question has to be asked, why did Vodafone not make the same effort?

In recent times Telecom seem to have removed the base station shelter in the middle of the photo. It has been replaced with spectator chairs. I have not yet figured out where they have moved the station to, as I assume the site is still operational.

Abbotts Way (Vodafone)

Address: Michaels Avenue, Ellerslie

March 2004

This site is located near Abbotts Way (Telecom) — that site is actually located just a stone’s throw across a football field. The design of this site is a poor effort, in my opinion, compared to Telecom’s more camoflaged effort.

MED records indicates that this site has a microwave dish to the Glendowie site. I could not seem to find the dish when I first visited the site in 2004 and I was nervous to have a close look around since there were people inside the building next to the site. I shall have to visit the site again to see if I can find it.

Market Road (Telecom)

Address: Great South and Market Roads, Epsom

February 2004

Panmure (Vodafone)

Address: Domain and Queens Road, Panmure

February 2004

Waimarie Street (Vodafone/Woosh)

January 2004

This site serves an unusual position as a passive microwave relay for Vodafone between the St Heliers Bay and Glendowie sites. Vodafone does not currently run any cellular (GSM or UMTS) services from this site.

Woosh Wireless uses this site for their wireless broadband service, as well as some microwave links to other sites in the area. There are also some other radio antennas here — I don’t know who owns these antennas and for what purposes. Possibly some antennas are operated by Metrowater in relation to the water tower.