Brazilian regulator closes down 1,199 illegal radio stations

This year the Brazilian telecommunications regulatory agency Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) has stepped up its policing of illegal radio stations.

So far this year 1,199 of them have been taken off the air. That works out to around 200 per month, and is much more than last year when 1,807 were closed down during the whole year. Anatel estimates that there are almost 4,500 pirate radio stations operating in the country.

Edilson Ribeiro dos Santos, a superintendent at Anatel, says that the illegal radio stations interfere with legal stations, as well as air traffic communications.

Source: Agencia Brasil

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