High-rise buildings in busy streets may encounter poorer mobile-phone reception due to congested signals, according to telecommunications operators.
The revelation follows complaints by some tenants at Central Plaza in Wan Chai that their offices had less than satisfactory mobile-telephone reception.
A spokesman for Sun Hung Kai Properties, one of the building's landlords, said it had been informed of tenants' concerns and had referred them to the mobile-phone network operators.
Central Plaza, at 374 metres, is the tallest building in Hong Kong.
A spokeswoman for Hutchison Telecom said most network operators' signal transmitters were pointed at tall buildings in densely populated areas to maximise coverage.
This might result in overwhelming signals or greater interference, which would affect mobile-phone reception, she said.
