How vulnerable are these to tampering (disregarding what will happen to you after getting v&, just from a technical perspective)?
If you've ever wondered how Tokyo gets good cell reception, the answer is lots of base stations. everywhere. This one is on top of my building. Making an educated guess from the labeling, it covers at most an area of about 300m x 300m, probably less.pic.twitter.com/WLdRugfHvS
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Good question. Physically, there is zero security - no locks whatsoever (that are actually locked) between outdoors and those boxes. I'm not sure if the boxes themselves are locked, but I can trivially access the fiber uplink line (and hypothetically passive tap it, NSA style).
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That looks tidy
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Apparently this will be more and more the norm with "5G" even in less dense cities.
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What about impact on health?
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None. It's non-ionizing radiation. As long as you aren't standing right next to the antennas, the dielectric heating effect is negligible too. And the more, lower-powered base stations there are, the less pronounced the peak power at any given one is.
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So .. not just the vending machines eh?
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ehh... what about rain, wind, snow and all that. Do they leave that stuff in the open just like that?
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It's all weatherproofed.
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That’s a lot of copper and expensive networking gear one can sell for booze money!
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