Explaining The New 5G Poles In The Wildwoods
In the past few weeks we have been receiving many concerning emails about “these new strange poles that are going up around the city.” Let’s take a minute to talk about what they are.
For those who come down here just for a few days may also experience the same poor cell phone reception we have year round.
Since we live on a barrier island, the closest cell phone towers are on land with the exception of those on the water towers.
During the summer this creates a bottleneck and caused many calls to fail or for service to slow down. You most likely experienced this when trying to go live on Facebook or Youtube via your phone during the Friday Night Fireworks.
As we move forward from just using phones for calls towards streaming our lives 24/7, this puts a burden on those towers.
To fix this companies like Verizon Wireless have been going to shore towns and requesting to add 5G poles. These poles, named nodes, work by transmitting broadband wireless signals across a network divided into hexagonal “cells.” This division of the network allows for phones and devices to switch from tower to tower maximizing capacity. With millimeter wave technology, more people will be able to use the network at once. Aka, They strengthen coverage and data transfer speeds where devices would otherwise compete for bandwidth.
