So is it WiFi or 4G? The author seems confused...
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-4g-and-wifi/
It's one of the great problems of modern times. How does the average thirty-something festival-goer send their friends a Yo while off their chops in some far-flung field? Luckily for the ageing denizens of Glastonbury, EE has stepped in with a flock of Wi-Fi equipped cows to make sure no meal remains un-Instagrammed and no …
Well, I wouldn't say it was about the music, but it's certainly not about "staying connected". It's about the whole experience, and a big part of that experience used to be being totally disconnected from the "normal" world outside.
Again, you've never been around cows...
While they are usually passive and want to get away... you corner them, any animal, and they will panic.
Not good. I've seen a cow (not a bull) rip apart a pen trying to get out because she was being crowded and spooked by the farmhand trying to get the cow into the chute.
(And yes, I've 'volunteered' to work the cattle when it became time to give them their medicines ...)
Trust me. Even a spooked calf can be dangerous.
There goes some of the few days I get to go without suffering my cow orker and his obsession with music festivals... I always thought that the point of a Music Festival is to to get people to unplug for a while and pay attention to the band, not spend the entire time obsessing about what is going on outside of the fence.
Technically that jealousy is happening outside of the fence :)
Although my cow orker seems to think that I'd be jealous despite the fact I've never heard of the bands performing nor did paying a week's pay surrounded by loud, unwashed people (If I wanted that, I'd just take a RyanAir flight to France)
The original Glasto's and the IOW festivals (plus the odd Stones in Hyde Park etc) you wern't considered to have 'been there' in the late 1960's/early 1970's.
now they seem to be one big marketing company's wet dream.
From a 60yr old who still plays from time to time in a band (bass guitar), they suck big time. Far too commercial for us oldies.
I shall be at Cropredy though. Far less commercial and fantastic bands playing especially Fairport Convention, Steve Hackertt and Austrailian Pink Floyd.
is it a flock of wifi equipped cows? or a High-speed Herd of fibreglass cows? The article fails to distinguish, and the difference could be substantial, i mean, if it's a flock of cows, and said flock chooses to roost in a tree, then that tree is gonna be a dangerous place to sit under,,,,
Nice tech related story. Moving on, I've noticed the BBC plugging their coverage of the forthcoming 'Glasto' constantly. It's a bit of a pity that their coverage usually consists of very little actual music, but plenty of Mark Radcliff and Jo Wiley talking bollocks while wearing wellies or sandals, interviewing thick / stoned musicians whom I've neve heard of, or even worse, that bloody irritating woman who is now a radio 1 dj, 'reporting' on the festival, visiting the kids village and trying juggling and face painting. Play some sodding music!