Of the many things I was apprehensive about as a first-time Glastonbury Festival goer - the long drops, the crowd crushes, the tent life to name just a few - I hadn't even considered the lack of signal. That was an oversight on my part given that 200,000 people are descending on a rural farm in Somerset, all fighting for 5G.
Vodafone is the provider this year, taking over from EE and promising "the highest capacity ever" on its network, but that's no use to me on O2. That realisation soon hit me after I'd stupidly arranged to meet my friends 'by the Pyramid Stage', a vast arena that was rapidly being flooded with thousands of people for the Arctic Monkeys' headline set on Friday.
With just a photo of their view for reference and a live location pin that had timed out 10 minutes earlier, I attempted to track them down, honing in on a pink unicorn flag as per their description before our signals died. Having spent about 15 minutes battling my way into the middle of the throng, much to the annoyance of people who had staked out their spot much earlier, it was human gridlock, I'd lost the flag, and I began to panic.
