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Drug cartel narco-antennas make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen
« on: July 16, 2020, 1146 UTC »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance.

Within 10 minutes, he had company: three armed men dressed in fatigues emblazoned with the logo of a major drug cartel.

The traffickers had a particular interest in that tower, owned by Boston-based American Tower Corp <AMT.N>, which rents space to carriers on its thousands of cellular sites in Mexico. The cartel had installed its own antennas on the structure to support their two-way radios, but the contractor had unwittingly blacked out the shadowy network.

The visitors let him off with a warning.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/special-report-drug-cartel-narco-110728469.html
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