The dipolar model \cite{Gordon:2005ai} has attracted much interest because it
may phenomenologically explain the CMB hemispherical power asymmetry found in
the WMAP and Planck data. Since such a model explicitly breaks isotropy at
large angular scales it is natural to wonder whether it can also explain other
CMB directional anomalies. Focusing on the low â„“ alignments and assuming
ΛCDM, we confirm that the quadrupole/octupole and the
dipole/quadrupole/octupole alignments are anomalous with a significance up to
99.9% C.L., for both WMAP and Planck data. Moreover, we show for the first
time that such features are anomalous also in the dipolar model, roughly at the
same level as in ΛCDM. We conclude that the dipolar model does not
provide a better fit to the data than the ΛCDM.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures and 4 table