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This book is in Geometric Disk Covering Applied to masting of GSM antenna in Telecom Network Design. Such problems arise in many application domains such as communication networks robotics computer graphics and many others. In the telecom industry it is well known that wireless communication does not perform well without antennas on GSM masts but the existence and design of GSM masts becomes an inconvenience to many users and the industry when not properly positioned. Due to inappropriate location of GSM masts and irregular assignment of frequencies mobile users experience frequent hard handovers uneconomical soft handovers call trafficking call blocking and higher degrees of interference. A greedy approximation model called Hexagonal Tessellation Model is proposed to optimize the network design. Data from MTN and GLO Ghana and Nigeria were collected and analyzed using the developed model. Also this book seek to provide a profound and unifying exposition to telecommunication network theory and the mathematical algorithms that support it.