San Francisco can reject 5G equipment it views as too ugly


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 09 Apr 2019

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San Francisco can reject 5G wireless equipment that it views as detracting from the city’s beauty, a setback for wireless carriers which may now have to remap new networks or disguise antennas as palm fronds or building cornices. 

California’s highest court disagreed Thursday with T-Mobile US Inc and other companies which argued San Francisco overreached in asserting its authority to regulate wireless telephone equipment on aesthetic grounds. 

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