The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Computers => Topic started by: Elderberry on January 22, 2021, 11:43:03 pm
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Houston Chronicle by Dwight Silverman Jan. 22, 2021
Dirk Wijnands and Adeline Pang hadn’t paid much attention to the coming 5G wireless data revolution until its building blocks were installed without warning on the couple’s Montrose-area lawn.
In September 2019, work began on the street near their home on Elmen near Westheimer as contractors dug trenches to install fiber optic cable. Shortly afterward, a box resembling an oversized dorm room refrigerator appeared on their lawn, next to a wooden utility pole that had been placed earlier.
“Three weeks after the work began, they hung a little tag on our doorknob that said something like, ‘Oh we are doing some work on your lawn,’†Wijnands said. “They’d work on it for two or three days in a row, then I wouldn’t see them for five days, and then they’d be back.â€
In the jargon of telecommunications, the box is known as “ground furniture.†The beige metal cabinets, with an electrical meter affixed, supply power and a high-speed fiber connection to a transmitter on Verizon’s wireless data network. They are popping up on lawns all over Houston, and in other cities around the United States, often without notice to homeowners.
More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Streamlined-5G-buildout-puts-ground-15889021.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Streamlined-5G-buildout-puts-ground-15889021.php)
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The meter looks like an invitation for a 5-Iron.