De Telegraaf reported on Saturday that a number of Dutch cell broadcast towers were damaged by arson or vandalism last week by opponents of the 5G network.
The newspaper said there were four such incidents last week, and cited the director of the Monet Industrial Foundation, which oversees the state of the cellular towers in the country.
It stated that those who carried out sabotage operations had drawn a counter-fifth-generation emblem at the scene of the attack.
Groups in the Netherlands have mostly opposed the fifth-generation technology because of fears that the waves could harm human health. Others fear that technology could violate privacy.
The Dutch government, the Ministry of Security and Counter-Terrorism, said in a statement on its website that it recorded "various incidents" over broadcasting towers last week, including arson and sabotage, and did not rule out that the reason was opposition to the launch of the country's fifth generation network.
"This is a disturbing development ... as the disruption of transmission towers could have consequences for the coverage of the telecommunications network and access to emergency services," the ministry added in its statement.
She noted that similar attacks had occurred recently in Britain.
Last week, British ministers rejected a theory linking the fifth-generation towers to the spread of the new Corona virus as "fake news" and dangerous.
The largest telecom providers in the Netherlands are still in the stage of testing the fifth generation telecommunications technology and have not yet begun their launch nationwide, pending the end of the tenders next June.