5G MANHOLE COVERS
[Words Tom Wiggins]
I’m not sure we even have 3G manhole covers yet.
We most definitely haven’t, but the fact that you don’t know just shows how much we take manhole covers for granted. Imagine all the sewage-soaked trousers we’d have to deal with if our roads were dotted with gaping portals to the smelly underworld. And now, with people demanding better mobile coverage but often going all NIMBY when networks try to put up new masts, Vodafone has found a way to make manhole covers live a double life: by turning them into antennas.