Mobile phone masts

By YateMate | Thursday, June 25, 2009, 12:19

I hear some phone company wants to put up more phone masts in Yate.

Isn't it about time we said we'd had enough? I know the scientists claim they're safe, but we don't know what state our brains will be in come 40 years.

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The actual power of the transmission is similar to that of an ordinary mobile phone. It's actually slightly more, but it's not VASTLY more. The mast is communicating on a two-way basis with a set of phones in its zone. There are typically a dozen channels and four time-slots, so in effect the actual total power is fifty times that of a phone. But because of the inverse-square law, the bottom line is this: If your head is seven times further away from a mobile phone mast than it is from a phone, you are being bombarded by more radiation from the phone than from the mast!

By Fizzwizz at 11:06 on 08/07/09
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If TVs and electrical goods in general produce EMR that might actually be harmful there isnt a doubt in my mind that these mobile phone masts are dangerous... besides, I thought we had good reception everywhere now in England.

By INLUMINO at 09:31 on 08/07/09
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How dare you say the government are covering it up. If we can't trust the politicians who can we trust....(ahem)

By captainplanet at 11:56 on 07/07/09
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Sorry, but I just don't agree. There is so much research that suggests these masts are dangerous. I have one about 50 yards from my house and I make my kids take the long way round to school because I get so worried about the effects. And, the thing that annoys me most is that the Government are covering up the whole issue because they are scared of vodafone and o2

By PatrickCarbry at 12:07 on 03/07/09
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I don't think they are dangerous as I have worked on them for year with no ill effects.
CliveHelbert

By dogs6 at 12:03 on 03/07/09
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