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A 2019 city rule tells operators to hang miniaturised 5G base stations on light poles instead of raising new masts
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A 2019 city rule tells operators to hang miniaturised 5G base stations on light poles instead of raising new masts
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with 100 km set for that year in the government work report
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The first round, 2018-2020, finished 360 kilometres of street
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Citywide 40,000 poles of every kind were pulled out, an average reduction of 60%, and 16,000 comprehensive poles went up in their place absorbing roughly 19,000 sets of equipment
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the burial rate on arterial and secondary roads inside the Inner Ring rose from 42% to 65%, with telecom operators removing 39,000 km of communications cable and the power company more than 1,500 km of overhead line
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On one Xuhui arterial, Zhaojiabang Road, 838 poles came out for a 62% reduction and 109 traffic signals, 106 cameras and 114 signs were moved onto what remained
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By the end of June 2025 the current round had completed about 50 km and raised 1,600 more poles
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close to a thousand accidents a year from slack overhead lines falling and poles toppling
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the city's three-year plan for 34,000 5G base stations treats the poles as the thing those stations hang on, and the designers asked equipment makers for their dimensions and weights while the pole was still on the drawing board, leaving the top free
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src-23203243c88fef53Launch document 沪府办〔2018〕21号, issued by the municipal government office on 3 April 2018: the multi-pole-in-one principle with road lighting poles as the main carrier.
src-23db6b46c7a409d6Online interview with a first-level inspector of the housing commission: the city counts close to a thousand safety accidents a year from slack overhead lines falling and poles toppling; the 2018-2020 round completed 360 km, raised the burial rate on main and secondary roads inside the Inner Ring from 42% to 65%, pulled 40,000 poles for an average 60% reduction, erected 16,000 comprehensive poles and integrated 19,000 sets of equipment, with 39,000 km of communications cable and over 1,500 km of overhead power line removed. It also states that the 34,000 5G base stations of the city's new-infrastructure plan use the poles as their mounting platform, and that manufacturers were consulted on dimensions and weight during the pole design.
src-aa9e727727e796c4Implementing Opinion of 27 June 2019, in force from 10 July 2019: street light poles and other public structures are to host miniaturised 5G base stations.
src-66776e77f308a454Progress note of 17 July 2025: about 50 km of comprehensive-pole works completed and more than 1,600 new poles erected by the end of June, against the 100 km set for the year in the government work report.
src-3ac091e0a7fe93a7District case reports: on Xuhui's Zhaojiabang Road 838 poles were removed for a 62% reduction, along with 141 boxes, while 114 signs, 106 surveillance cameras and 109 traffic signals were relocated; the street was the city's first pilot combining overhead-line burial with an underground utility corridor, built by refurbishing a disused civil-defence structure under the central green strip.