San Francisco Can Reject 5G Equipment It Views as Too Ugly
- California high court upholds law to preserve city’s ‘beauty’
- Decision is loss for T-Mobile, Verizon amid national 5G push
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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.