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Nature 399, 513 (10 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21028
Astronomers win satellite phone curb...
Alison Abbott
Europe's radioastronomers have won significant concessions in their prolonged battle with the global mobile-telephone company Iridium over timesharing in an astronomically important radio waveband.Under an agreement signed last week, the company will provide 'quiet time' — defined by the International Telecommunications Union as pollution "below the level of detrimental interference" — for facilities in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain for seven hours every night and two weekend days per month.
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