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17/01/2010
New Zealand residents are losing their battle with mobile phone start-up 2degrees over the cellphone towers the company are erecting in urban areas. On Thursday a tower in east Auckland went up despite months of protest, and on the North Shore a couple would have welcomed the chance to object, if they had known about it. Richard and Rachel Andrews came home from a three-week holiday to find a 2degrees cellphone tower put up just one metre from their front doorstep. "We just couldn't believe our eyes," says Richard Andrews. "It was just done without any consultation or talking to us at that time at all, we just didn't know it was coming."
When the Andrews were told about the proposed tower, they voiced their concerns and also contacted the North Shore City Council. The only letter the Andrews say they received was from the council back in 2007 telling them that as an affected party they had a right to object to the cellphone tower at resource consent stage. ONE News has has found out that due to a law change, resource consent was not needed - not that anyone told the Andrews. "We have an answerphone, we've got a mailbox - why couldn't they have contacted us? We were only away three weeks," says Richard. 2degrees say the Andrews were not home when they came to tell them about the construction. Residents are taking extraordinary steps to stop 2degrees putting up cellphone towers near their homes. A protest in Auckland's Buckland's Beach earlier this week was so strong police were called in. But the third largest mobile player is winning its war in the suburbs. "How many executives of 2degrees have got these things outside their front gardens?," says Richard. It is a permanent fixture for the Andrews, and a little too close for comfort.
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Why do you continually bag 2 degrees for these towers that are being erected. After all it was the previous Labour government that changed the law allowing these towers to be built without a resource consent. 2 Degrees are within the law with what they are doing. People want cellphone coverage.
Alan
18/01/2010 17:09:33
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2 degrees acts on behalf of it's customers. They pay for it all. Join me and object by opting out of their network. If other networks do it keep opting out till they get sick of the movement and change their cheapjack ways.
JJ Bowen
29/01/2010 19:39:02
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