Mobile Towers
Recently Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked renowned telecom service provider, Airtel to pay property tax on mobile towers which are put up on flyovers. To this Airtel has filed a case against BMC claiming the tax is illegal in all ways. The towers were set up on flyovers in April 2008 after Maharashtra State [...] Continue Reading »
There are around 4 lakh mobile towers in the country. Bangalore Telecom district alone has 1,180 sites where mobile towers are installed. A majority are owned, planned, installed and managed by BSNL. Nearly 60% of energy consumed by mobile towers is from diesel sets which effectively makes mobile towers major air polluters. Due to high [...] Continue Reading »
The District Education Officer (DEO) in Ahmedabad has asked all schools to remove mobile towers within a month. The DEO had written to all schools in January, asking them to provide details of cellphone towers, terms of contract with mobile phone companies, payment and duration. Sources say there are more than 10 schools in the [...] Continue Reading »
According to an inter-ministerial committee formed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to study the hazards posed by mobile phones, radiation from mobile phones and towers poses serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbance in the digestive system and sleep disturbances. The committee has also attributed the disappearance of [...] Continue Reading »
The residential welfare associations who gladly let out their terraces for erecting cellphone towers are now doing a reality check. The crashing of a cellphone tower in an apartment complex in Raja Annamalaipuram on Tuesday has sent shockwaves among residents and apartment owners association. There are at least 2,000 cellphone towers installed in the city [...] Continue Reading »
According to a survey by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, there were more than 1,000 unauthorized towers in the city at last count.High-power committee examining health hazards lays down ground rules for installation of cell towers. The panel, set up earlier this year to examine health hazards caused by mobile towers, has in its report said [...] Continue Reading »
According to the source, a service provider can erect a tower only after obtaining a structural stability certificate from a certified architect as well as a no objection certificate from the housing society where the tower is supposed to come up. “We are making changes in the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (MRTP) Act to [...] Continue Reading »
