UK’s Green Party Wants to Save Energy By Consolidating Cell Phone Networks

Photo via smith The UK's Green Party is taking a hard look at mobile phone networks and says that unnecessary duplication of coverage is an energy waster. If the UK wants to save as much as 300 gigawatt hours a year, rival companies that are overlapping each other with the more than 50,000 base stations across the country should consolidate networks into a "super-network." ...