Ukraine: Town 'bans mobile phone operators'
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November 2013 Last updated at 11:26 ET
A town
in Ukraine has disconnected itself from the mobile phone network, it seems.
Councillors
in Yaremche apparently terminated the lease allowing communications firms to
use the masts amid pressure from health campaigners fearing the effects of
radiation. "There is virtually no mobile connection in Yaremche now,"
reports internet and social media magazine Watcher. "The [operator]
Kyivstar signal is detectable but it is almost impossible to make or take a
call, since the base station is overloaded."
Watcher,
which caters for the online business community, reckons it's hard to imagine
"a more idiotic decision by a local council" and suggests it's bad
news for the Carpathian winter resort, which has a population of about 8,000,
with high season approaching. It quotes a local development expert as saying,
presumably with tongue-in-cheek: "All electronic devices... should be
seized from the locals and they should be given mammoth pelts and fenced."
A town
in Ukraine has disconnected itself from the mobile phone network, it seems.
Councillors
in Yaremche apparently terminated the lease allowing communications firms to
use the masts amid pressure from health campaigners fearing the effects of
radiation. "There is virtually no mobile connection in Yaremche now,"
reports internet and social media magazine Watcher. "The [operator]
Kyivstar signal is detectable but it is almost impossible to make or take a
call, since the base station is overloaded."
Watcher,
which caters for the online business community, reckons it's hard to imagine
"a more idiotic decision by a local council" and suggests it's bad
news for the Carpathian winter resort, which has a population of about 8,000,
with high season approaching. It quotes a local development expert as saying,
presumably with tongue-in-cheek: "All electronic devices... should be
seized from the locals and they should be given mammoth pelts and fenced."
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