Canada's top court ruled on Thursday that a Quebec municipality did not have the right to prevent wireless provider Rogers Communications from building a cell phone tower on municipal land. The Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the notice of reserve the city of Chateauguay had given Rogers was beyond the scope of Chateauguay's power. In 2008, Rogers told Chateauguay, a suburb of Montreal, that it intended to build a telecommunications tower to fill in gaps in its wireless coverage on a site the company had been renting since December 2007.



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