# Phone mast income for churches approved

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/09/13/phone-mast-income-churches-approved/
- Published: 2007-09-13T12:01:09+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Churches in England will now be able to erect mobile phone masts in their steeples
and towers and earn around £5,000 a year from mobile phone operators.

The move follows a successful appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Court of 
the Arches by the Reverend Tom Page, rector of the Church of St Peter and St Paul
in Chingford, East London. He wanted to install a T-Mobile mast, but opponents had
previously objected that this meant that churches could thereby be involved in distributing
or relaying pornography to children. The Court’s clarification rejected this argument.

According to The Times’ [Churches get the OK for phone masts](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2324462.ece),
fewer than 200 of the 16,000 Anglican churches have a mast installation, and dozens
of churches were waiting for the outcome of the appeal.

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