Chile Against Mobile Phone Antennas

April 16, 2007 – 5:45 pm

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You can count the Chilean government in as a group of people who really don’t like the look of mobile phone antennas, or what they’ve done for the look and feel of many major urban areas.

Chile said on Monday it would propose a law to give people more say about where mobile phone companies can set up transmission antennas, seen by many as towering eyesores.

Chile has seen explosive growth in mobile communications in recent years, giving it the highest per capita usage of the technology in Latin America, but with it has come a skyline littered with sprouting towers.

“The installation of mobile phone towers damages the urban environment,” Pablo Bello, subsecretary of communications, told reporters on Monday. “And it’s a reality that we must face.

There’s no doubt the antennas can be ugly. This may not be the last we see of this type of legislation.

Resource: Reuters

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