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Mobile co fails to stump up for pointless structure

Steve Foster

Aesthetics? 

Posted Thursday 9th July 2009 16:14 GMT

Is is jut me, or is that the ugliest folly ever?

I mean, they might at least have built something *pretty*.

K 4

o2 not improving their network? 

Posted Thursday 9th July 2009 19:46 GMT

FAIL

They could have filled in some of the blank space on the Ofcom 3G coverage map!

grumpy

A proud tower 

Posted Thursday 9th July 2009 19:46 GMT

Thumb Down

Looks ugly enough to start at least two world wars... My respect for architects can't go any lower but this... thing... would have deducted another couple of points.

Alain Moran

I beg to differ... 

Posted Thursday 9th July 2009 19:46 GMT

Joke

This most certainly isnt the largest folly built in the last hundred years ... the O2 arena is much bigger than this, and the olympic village will be even bigger!

Anonymous Coward

Follys end up looking like their owner? 

Posted Thursday 9th July 2009 19:46 GMT

From the "self-satisfied photograph" of Mr. Gronow-Davis, it would appear that his dress sense and the folly's colour scheme are similarly bizarre!

Charles Manning

Still a folly 

Posted Friday 10th July 2009 08:31 GMT

Considering that most mobile chit-chat is pointless, this thing would still be a folly if it housed cells.

wabbit02

who owns Airwave 

Posted Friday 10th July 2009 08:31 GMT

FAIL

Last time I looked Airwave was owned by some Aussies - not the Spanish!

Nigel 11

How long ... 

Posted Friday 10th July 2009 10:05 GMT

Paris Hilton

For how long does a folly have to remain useless, before it can acquire a use and still remain a folly?

Paris knows a lot about folly ....

Lionel Baden

suprised 

Posted Friday 10th July 2009 11:11 GMT

there was no penalty clause for o2 ..

i would get pissed off if they did that to me !

and i t also looks like a mosque