Brighton Store owner Azizah Steel said she posted a letter to 2degrees corporate affairs director Matthew Bollard on Monday detailing how 2degrees staff had disregarded the community's concerns on the proposed placement of a cellphone tower on Scroggs Hill Rd.
Brighton Store was the only convenience store in Brighton and she could ''no longer represent'' 2degrees by selling its sim cards, she said.
''I am removing the stock that I have,'' she told the Auckland executive in the letter.
She had removed four 2degrees sim cards from the store.
In the eight years she had owned the store, she had sold about 10 2degrees sim cards.
Customers bought Telecom sim cards because its coverage was better in Brighton than 2degrees.
She would restock the store with 2degrees sim cards, if the company erected its tower near Telecom's tower on farmland.
About 99% of customers in her store had supported the protesters in Scroggs Hill Rd, she said.2degrees declined to comment on Ms Steel returning the sim cards when contacted yesterday.
But Mr Bollard had told protesters in a letter last week that 2degrees had considered private land for the tower but it was deemed unsuitable to deliver ''quality'' mobile coverage to Brighton and Ocean View.
The farmland near the Telecom site would deliver a lower-quality signal than any of the four proposed sites on Scroggs Hill Rd and a cellphone tower would be constructed on the original Scroggs Hill Rd site, Mr Bollard said in the letter.
