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Italian media to tour US antennas like those at controversial Sicily site

State Department and Navy officials will give Italian media a tour of two antenna ground stations in the United States this week in an attempt to allay local fears surrounding a similar site nearing completion in Sicily, officials said.

The trip concerns the Mobile User Objective System, a narrowband satellite communication system that employs dish antennas at four worldwide sites to relay secure voice and data communications to military networks and mobile receivers resembling smartphones.

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Source: http://www.stripes.com

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