Anti-5G activists waste energy on the wrong target

The town of Glastonbury is home to many people who hold a supernatural belief in the positive effects of energy concentrated along ley lines and held in crystals.

What some there do not appear to like is the energy emitted by 5G technology, the generation of wireless networks that will eventually replace wired connections and connect everything from your laptop to your self-driving car.

A band of anti-5G activists left an area of Glastonbury without broadband this week after targeting what they thought was a 5G transmitter but was actually a 5GHz broadband box.

The bungled protest at Paddington Farm left households in parts of the Somerset town without a wi-fi connection. Voneus, which provides the connection, said that if the vandals had intended to

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