MOBILE BROADBAND

BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) governments should be more liberal towards granting planning permissions for mobile phone masts and base stations, to boost mobile-broadband services, the European Commission has claimed. In a checklist for EU governments, the Commission said: "Action is required to address regulatory barriers to their establishment." It added that the roll-out of third generation mobile telephone services, such as broadband networks, would demand more masts than existing GSM networks, "owing to the higher frequency bands". It said local ...


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