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Re:Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Netwo... by cypherpunks01 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:56PM (#18721901)
Wouldn't traffic poles serve as better publicly-owned antenna mount points? They are powered and have better line of sight to everything (broader range). I wonder why manholes are considered better.
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Re:Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Netwo... by ldite on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:22AM (#18723992)
As I understand it, they're owned by different entities; the street lights/traffic poles are often owned by local authorities (in the UK) while manhole covers are owner by the utilities.

I suspect that one aspect of this is to give them leverage in getting access to antenna sites.

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Re:Manhole Covers Serve as Antennas Expanding Wireless Netwo... by ajdhsjakafjt on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:01PM (#18722162)
The article doesn't state it was better than traffic lights. I think small cells in traffic lights are already reality, even if not widespread, the small cells exist.

The article presents a novel, non-obvious approach in some ealier-stage development.

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