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Following up on yesterday's post about Telus wrapping up their DSL cabinets, here's the wrapped DSL cabinet by MEC's employee's entrance on the West side of the building on Columbia Street. Nice by itself, but it's meant to be seen with the nearby big old tree. Earliier, about a kilometre-or-so West, I found another DSL cabinet with a  sticker label on the back, warning of high voltage. There was fine print along the bottom, including ... a URL: slsol.com! Finally, I thought, a Web site for one of these DSL cabinet makers.


The URL is for the company which made the sticker. Click the images to enlarge them.

In the upscale single-family neighbourhoods, I travel in, B.C.'s main telco, Telus has taken to covering their bland DSL cabinets with a printed 3M anti-graffiti ad-wrap. The wraps tend to be imaged to mimic the background so the cabinet doesn't stick out like such a sore thumb. Apparently the very fact the cabinets are decorated helps deter graffiti. And also the wrap is designed so that spray graffiti, and marker tags are easier to remove. Here are two examples:


This cabinet, from the Arbutus Ridge area, could stand as a definitive example of what Telus is trying to accomplish with ad-wraps. BTW, according to a sticker on the cabinet, the company that wrapped this is Clearvision Media.



This next one, from Kitsilano, doesn't blend in -- I'm betting it reproduces what's behind the fence.