By Steve Ranger
Published: Tuesday 05 April 2005
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Name
Simon Bazley
Location
Thames Valley
Occupation
Software Engineer (Electronics Engineering Graduate)
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The ideal solution with the mobile networks would be a massive increase in the number of urban masts with a corresponding decrease in their power output. The technology is more than capable of having overlapping cells to a degree that would allow at least some mast sharing.
The biggest problem is public perception. Nobody really knows for sure if masts are dangerous or not, but anyone with a reasonable understanding of Physics and Maths can make a fairly informed opinion about the likely exposure you're going to get from a mast at a given range given it's power output.
The fact that most transmitters are less than 60W is a fact that is rarely published, but it does put a big questionmark over the mass hysteria everyone has about them.
Still that said having even lower powered transmitters can only be a good thing.
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