Száva utca TV Tower, Television tower in District X, Budapest, Hungary.
The Száva utca TV Tower is a 154-metre broadcasting mast in Gyárdűlő, District X, Budapest, standing on a 2.5-metre-thick circular reinforced-concrete slab at 120 metres above sea level. Its lower 100 metres are reinforced concrete, cast in 7.6-metre-diameter, 37.5-centimetre-thick climbing-formwork sections on a sixteen-sided plan; above that a cylindrical steel tube assembled from 4-metre prefabricated elements carries the antennas, with a 1.5-metre concrete slab at 100 metres. Six operations buildings surround the base.
The tower was built between 1987 and 1988 by the Magyar Posta to provide uninterrupted radio-telephone communication in Budapest, predating the János-hegy tower. It began as part of the experimental analogue 1G network, became a GSM base station in 1994, and later handled 2G, 3G and 4G traffic. In 2019 the Hungarian state bought it from Magyar Telekom for about 1.7 billion forints; Pro-M Zrt. operates it.
The tower's name comes from Száva utca, the street in Gyárdűlő where it stands. Since 2019 it has been owned by the Hungarian state through the Magyar Nemzeti Vagyonkezelő, which bought it from Magyar Telekom for about 1.7 billion forints; its operator is Pro-M Zrt. It carries One Földfelszíni TV's DVB-T broadcasts and T-DAB+ digital radio.
The tower is not readily accessible to the public as it functions as an active broadcasting facility with restricted access. Visitors can view and photograph the structure from various nearby locations along Száva utca.
The tower was operated by Magyar Telekom until 2019, when the Hungarian state bought the facility for about 1.7 billion forints; its operator is now Pro-M Zrt. In 2017 it handled half of Budapest's voice traffic, 2.5–3 million megabytes of mobile data per day.
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