A Tauranga resident is disgusted by the erection of a cellphone tower right outside her home.

The homeowner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is angry with the Tauranga City Council and phone company 2 Degrees, which owns the cellphone tower.

This 2 Degrees cellphone tower is located by a kitchen window.

'I am disgusted with the council, who think it's okay to allow these towers to go up willy-nilly,” says the woman.

'I think, they think it's okay, ‘we don't live there so it doesn't bother us' – they are sitting on a toilet constipated, thinking who can we annoy next.”

The cellphone tower is located right outside her kitchen window.

'I got a letter a month ago saying it was going up. I have rung the council and they gave me a number for Auckland who told me to contact 2 Degrees and I got no answer there.

'I have tried to contact Simon Bridges, he wasn't there, so I left a message only to be told it wasn't their problem. I've got no response from anyone.”

The irate resident says no amount of letters or information is going to make her change her mind about not liking the tower.

'I have been sent pamphlets to tell me the cellphone tower will not affect me and I was so interested in that, I threw it in the rubbish.”

She says surveyors were outside her home a few weeks ago.

'I kept bailing them up asking them what they were surveying. They went all around the paddock and didn't directly answer the question.

Three and a half years ago, 2 Degrees sent a letter asking to put up a tower at the back of her section. They offered her $7000.

'I didn't know if this was a lump sum or to be paid each year. I rang the person back and said ‘No, no, no, no, I don't want a tower anywhere near my property'.

'And now I have one outside my kitchen window – so really I didn't have a say.”

2 Degrees communications manager Michael Bouliane says they announced in February a plan to invest an additional $100m in their network over the next two years.

'Tauranga is an important city and we want our network to continue to meet the growing demands of smart phone and data device users there,” says Michael.

'By further investing in our network – and building mobile phone sites, we will continue to bring the benefits of increased competition – better value and better service – to the residents of Tauranga and throughout New Zealand.”

Tauranga City Council group communication advisor Alison Clifford says there are many factors which need to be considered when granting resource consent for cellphone towers.