Kissamos, Greece: The first city free of mobile phones...not!

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source:_http://www.tvxs.gr/v9375
(translated from Greek)

April 10, 2009

"After magisterial decision, there was a mandatory cessation of operation for tree mobile telephony
antennas in the island of Creta, leaving the city of Kissamos without coverage. The decision was made
after the citizens requested for injunction from the First Degree Court of the city of Chania,
demanding that these cell phone antennas should stop operating. [for health reasons: there are no official studies for the risk they propose]

The court's decision demands that these three antennas should be completely removed, but the cell-phone
companies that own these antennas seem determined to keep them, in order to be used in case of an emergency."

...

A couple of weeks later...

source:_http://www.tvxs.gr/v9849

April 18, 2009

"After staying for 15 days with their mobile phones inactive, the citizens of the city of Kissamos pleaded
to the mobile telephony providers CosmOte, Vodafone and Wind to re-operate their antennas.
The citizens had appealed to court just a short time ago, demanding the cessation of the operation of
cell-phone antennas, because there were no corresponding Studies of Enviromental Impact (SEI).
Their appeal was accepted.But when the citizens realized that they could be left without mobile phones
for up to 2 years (the time needed for an approval of a SEI), they asked for their appeal to be reconsidered.
Finally, the normal operation of the antennas started again yesterday morning."

Well, this is how "strong" people are sometimes...
We do not want to give up our killer techno-toys for more that 20 days. We will not leave our "comfort zone" no matter what.