Happy Holidays
ON BEHALF OF A
CELLNEX / ALTICOM
CUSTOMER
What’s going on here?
First a lot of negativity, then a Christmas tree and a thank you for volunteering.
Sometimes you have to reveal the true nature
of, in this case,
the customer of Cellnex/Alticom.
The customer of Cellnex/Alticom is a company that provides mobile network infrastructure services to other companies. These companies, in turn, provide mobile network services to consumers.
DECEMBER
It is Christmas
PEACE ON EARTH
VREDE OP AARDE
Consider it a truce for now.
Although I must admit that it is very difficult with two people who think they are above everything.
The Christmas tree in IJsselstein is on fire, a wonderful initiative by the KERSTBOOM foundation. (The largest Christmas tree)
The Christmas tree at the top of this site was an initiative of the customer somewhere around 2010 from Lelystad harbour with a height of 28 metres. The light at the bottom is a lamppost and the base was an antenna mast. A nice initiative on a somewhat smaller scale.
Shortly before this, you saw a Christmas tree that many people thought, ‘Hey, I know that one, it’s in IJsselstein.’ Even people from the IJsselstein area itself.
Yes, it does look quite similar, only with many more light bulbs, because LED lighting had yet to be invented. This is a tree on a roof in Amsterdam North from the 1980s, a tree that you couldn’t miss when travelling from the north towards the centre of Amsterdam via the IJ tunnel.
Until one year before the turn of the century, a decorated Christmas tree stood here every year.
Sometimes this was not granted and the base of the tree had to be removed in the interests of the public prosecutor’s office or because the weather gods were against us. And then you end up with a bare roof that had only been new for two weeks. It took two weeks to renew the roof, but the mast itself was back in place after six hours.
And so we literally witnessed a falling star with a diameter of four metres.
The public prosecutor’s office? Come inside and take a look at the attic.
Don’t tell anyone, quickly back to the roof.
No, dear readers, it wasn’t the coloured Petes, who were still beautifully black at the time, it was the antenna builders from Kootwijk who, if I hadn’t stopped working for KPN in 2011, would now be my immediate colleagues. In this case, the Public Prosecution Service hired them to temporarily (six hours) remove this mast from my roof. Six hours later, it was back in all its glory.
And so the idea of the illuminated antenna mast spread from Amsterdam North to IJsselstein.
From January 1979 onwards, I was a child in the towers in the Amsterdam and Haarlem region, and later this expanded to all towers in the Netherlands. I would rather not discuss the current situation there at this moment. This will come after the New Year.
Enjoy the holidays, including the Cellnex employees.
Dear volunteer,
Today, 7 December, is National Volunteer Day!
We would like to thank you for your dedication.
YOU make the difference!
We also have a small gift for you 🎁.
Here you will find the December calendar full of surprises especially for you.
We hope it brings you as many moments of happiness as you have given over the past year.
Thank you again and enjoy your day!
Kind regards,
Volunteer Centre Staff