<p class="title">All telecom service providers and optical fibre companies must submit affidavits of their mobile phone towers and OFC cables in the city by January 20, the BBMP has said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">"The companies should map their towers and OFCs through the geographic information system (GIS). Once they submit the affidavits to the BBMP, ward engineers will take up a ground survey and update the GIS map. If we find out illegal mobile towers, we will issue notices to property owners, too," BBMP Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">To regulate the illegal mobile towers, the Urban Development Department published a draft policy in 2016. To set up a mobile tower, the civic body must be paid an installation fee of Rs 50,000. </p>
<p class="title">All telecom service providers and optical fibre companies must submit affidavits of their mobile phone towers and OFC cables in the city by January 20, the BBMP has said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">"The companies should map their towers and OFCs through the geographic information system (GIS). Once they submit the affidavits to the BBMP, ward engineers will take up a ground survey and update the GIS map. If we find out illegal mobile towers, we will issue notices to property owners, too," BBMP Commissioner N Manjunath Prasad said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">To regulate the illegal mobile towers, the Urban Development Department published a draft policy in 2016. To set up a mobile tower, the civic body must be paid an installation fee of Rs 50,000. </p>
