My Comments before the link to Katz' comments!
"Taxes on media providers and distributors need to be greatly increased to cover the decline in other industry!"
By some perverse realities those furthest from cell towers are likely to experience the greatest bursts of heavy radiation from using their own cell phones because more energy is required in use the cell phone antenna when further away from the mast!..... However, those close to cell towers are exposed longest to the stronger "I am here so find and use me" beacon!
Possibly the solution is to effect a change in the beacon antenna technology so that it operates on a wake up basis rather than 'I am telling you where I am'!
Saturation with wake up beacons might reduce radiation overall since it is the beacon radiation that permeates continuously our every fiber!
So lets get the safest wakeable beacon and responder technology and require that the telecom companies install this technology.
Radiation from cell phones in open air is about 15 centimeters and under that there is danger of stimulation of the amygdala cells which if cancerous could lead to mad people shooting up scores of schools! Who is to say that the Connecticut massacre is not related to overstimulation of the perpetrator's amygdala? Needs research as much as gun legislation!
If local authorities can't stop the spread of cell towers, they can alternatively really gear up to tax the hell out of unsafe antennas! Put the unsafe antennas in such a high local tax bracket that they fail to cover implementation costs!
What remains is to rank antennas and forms of antenna use according to relative safety? Big task, but something an enlightened government could entertain! Heavy taxes on the huge profits of these companies would be fair because it would fall directly on users and providers.
Carl Katz 17 December 04:39 Regarding the lengthy, costly, Interphone Study, which found a significantly higher risk of glioma in those who used their phone for more than 30 minutes a day (what they call a "heavy user"?) for cell phone users who used their phone for more than ten years:
A friend of mine who has been analyzing cell phone and electromagnetic radiation studies for the past fifteen years told me a couple of years ago that the entire Interphone study and design study is inherently flawed.
You almost always hear the Interphone study quoted by the industry and media - no significant risk for anyone other than the group with over ten years of use.
What the studies designers failed to take into account was cordless home phone users - DECT phones - the study did not take into account if the person used cordless phones at home.
They are possibly more dangerous than cell phones because they transmit at full power for the entire duration of the conversation. Cell phones increase and decrease their power depending on how close the user is to a tower which is why the conventional wisdom is to not use your cell phone if you have one or two bars on the connection indicator.
By stark contrast, DECT cordless home phones do NOT decrease their power - the operate flat out at 100% power for the duration of the call no matter how close or far you are from the phone base. Add to that users who keep the base of the phone next to their bed exposing them for the entire duration of their sleep, you quickly start to see that the entire study is a joke.
To summarize, if someone who didn't use a cell phone but used a home cordless phone for several years and got a brain tumor, they skewed the entire study when they reported their cell phone use - they didn't use a cell phone and got a tumor.
