The interaction of extraordinary waves with an inhomogeneous anisotropic plasma column at the lower hybrid frequency is investigated within the framework of the cold plasma theory. Numerical results for the wave absorption efficiency are presented for a wide range of plasma densities, magnetic field strengths, effective collision frequencies and column dimension values. Strong wave absorption occurs when the magnetic field strength approaches the value which corresponds to the ion cyclotron frequency. The plasma column exhibits a series of geometric resonances in the medium frequency range and a main absorption resonance in the h. f. range. The influence of temperature and nonlinear effects on the obtained absorption efficiency in the lower hybrid frequency range is discussed.