Is bringing down cell towers really an end to the radiation problem? Or are we putting ourselves into more trouble?

1. FEWER MOBILE TOWERS
=MORE RADIATION

2. Introduction

Radiation scare is leading to a clampdown on
mobile tower installations

The most discernible fallout is the rising
incidence of call drops in cities such as Delhi
and Mumbai.

3. But
Weaker signals are forcing mobile handsets to
compensate by ramping up transmission
power
This results in higher radiation exposure for
users from the phone itself

4. 
In September 2012, Rajasthan High Court
ordered banning the deployment of cell towers
atop schools and hospitals

Ever since, the crackdown on them has
intensified

Jaipur, Mumbai and Delhi being the three
worst-affected cities.

5. 
In Jaipur, around 350-400 towers are
estimated to have been shut down, while

in Mumbai around 100 towers have been shut

In Delhi, around 100 towers now estimated to
be shut

6.  The ministry lowered the EMF radiation levels
for mobile tower antennas by one-tenth of the
existing ICNIRP (International Commission on
Non-Ionising Radiation Protection) exposure
level, effective September 1, 2012.
 Indian standards are now effectively 10 times
more stringent than more than 90 per cent of
the countries, according to the Department of
Telecom.

7. 
In India, the Specific Absorption Rate (the rate
at which radio frequency energy is absorbed in
the human body over a given time) prescribed
for cellphones is 1.6 watt/ kg averaged over
one gram of human tissue.

From September 2013, all mobile handsets
have to carry the respective SAR limit.

8. Conclusion

Opposition to towers by residents in an area is
a bigger concern, as this may lead to towers
going off colonies, which will impact the overall
service

9. Conclusion

India depends almost exclusively on wireless
technologies like cell phones for connectivity
and lacks an adequate fixed line (copper wire)
or optical fibre network to fall back on

This again means that to manage adequate
connectivity with a lesser number of towers,
there would be the need to radiate more
power, thus exacerbating the very harm that
towers reportedly cause.

10. Conclusion

Companies are also trying to find a solution to
the problem of towers being installed on
buildings

They are now trying to bunch their
requirements on to common towers to reduce
their footprint

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