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Newspaper
Questions Whether Government Has Considered "Risks" Of Wireless
Investor's Business Daily
May 29, 1997
Alster, Norm --
Already, 300 communities have implemented moratoria on wireless antenna siting
for reasons of health, aesthetics, and property values. But in planning to
generate $23 billion for the budget through wireless spectrum auctions, the
government seems to not have taken into account local resistance to new wireless
networks. Jeffrey Silva of the wireless trade paper Radio Communications Report
says, "The people on the Hill way underestimated this grassroots
movement." Existing cellular carriers employ less than 15,000 towers, but
the oncoming PCS carriers will need over 100,000 new antennas. And with some PCS
licensees already having financial difficulties, local resistance to antenna
placement could further impair their ability to pay the government for their
licenses. A recent study conducted by Australian researchers finds that exposure
to radiation levels comparable to those emitted by digital cellular phones
doubles the risk of some cancers in mice. And while there is no evidence that
proves that cell phones are a health risk, Norm Alster writes that there are
enough "troubling" signs that further, lengthy research should be done
on the matter. But with the government depending on receiving revenue from
operating wireless carriers, Alston writes that Washington is telling the public
"your health concerns don't count." The Telecommunications Act of 1996
limits the ability of local communities to resist antenna placement for health
reasons.
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