By John McCarthy

Back in April, protestors (who had organized over mobile networks) went about torching phone masts in Belfast, Birmingham and Merseyside, hindering telecoms infrastructure at the peak of Covid-19. Industry body Mobile UK said that around 77 towers were attacked that month – and that, despite the intentions of the conspiracy theorists, most of these were not 5G-enabled.

There were also more than 40 instances of physical or verbal attacks on engineers, with O2 equipping its staff with signs reading ‘O2 Engineer Key Worker: Keeping your network running’ to dissuade would-be attackers.

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Source: The Drum