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Insights into radiation exposure during active use.
NEW 5G RESEARCH
New research has revealed fascinating insights into how 5G technology affects our exposure to electromagnetic waves, particularly if you are living in rural regions.
A team at the Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) has tracked 5G cell phone users’ exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) across two cities and three rural communities.
Surprisingly, living in cities with a dense network of cell towers might reduce your exposure to radiation compared to rural areas with fewer towers.
The team found that the average exposure in the rural areas was 29 milliwatts-per-square-meter (mW/sq-m) when uploading, nearly three-times the safety risk threshold recommended by the World Health Organization, 10 mW/sq-m.
The measurement represents how much radiofrequency energy is passing through a given surface area (like human skin) in the path of these wireless signals.
The team measured exposures in each of their five test municipalities by traveling to specific locations wearing a backpack with a portable device that measured RF-EMF exposure plus a smartphone equipped with sensors and radiation-tracking software.
RF-EMF are the means by which radio waves transfer energy, allowing wireless devices to communicate across frequencies that include microwave radiation — which under the wrong circumstances can deliver a dangerous amount of energy.
Researchers measured radiation exposure levels in two cities (“Zurich” and “Basel”) and three rural villages (“Hergiswil,” “Willisau,” and “Dagmersellen”).
What did they find?
At a baseline level, when having your plane in airplane mode for instance, cities were of course worse.
However, when actively transferring data (like downloading or uploading large files), researchers found exposure levels could spike dramatically, especially in rural regions.
Urban Areas:
- Downloading large files led to exposure levels of 6-7 mW/m².
- Uploading files for maximum speed tests increased exposure to 16 mW/m².
Rural Areas:
- Downloading large files raised exposure levels, but during maximum upload tests, exposure reached 29 mW/m² — almost double the levels in cities.
“This data is important for epidemiological research, risk communication and risk management, but also for future dosimetry and modelling studies. Future research understanding auto-induced DL and UL exposure from more realistic case scenarios remains necessary for a better characterization of the exposure levels.”
Why is this the case?
New 5G systems use something called massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (Ma-MIMO) antennas, which are ‘smarter’ and ‘more efficient’ than older cell towers.
These antennas employ a technology called beamforming, which works like a spotlight.
Instead of broadcasting signals evenly in all directions (like traditional networks), beamforming focuses the signal directly on your device.
In cities with more cell towers, baseline radiation is higher (0.48 mW/m² in Basel), but these phones require less energy to stay connected, so exposure during active use is lower.
In rural areas with fewer towers, baseline radiation is lower (around 0.17 mW/m²), but these phones emit much more energy during active use, resulting in higher exposure during active use.
Essentially, phones in rural regions must work much harder to maintain a connection with distant cell towers. This increases the energy emitted by the phone, leading to higher radiation exposure.
What does this mean?
Fernandes Veludo, a PhD student collaborating with the 5G investigation Project GOLIAT, also noted that the new findings ‘might underestimate the real exposure’ coming from these 5G cell phones when operated.
“This has the paradoxical consequence that a typical mobile phone user is more exposed to RF-EMF in areas with low base station density,” according to Veludo.
‘We have to keep in mind that, in our study, the phone was about 30 cm [11.8 inches] away from the measuring device,’ he noted.
“A mobile phone user will hold the phone closer to the body and thus the exposure to RF-EMF could be up to 10 times higher.”
While the new research out of Switzerland does not weigh-in on the health risks, it does provide new detailed information on what people are being exposed to out in real world scenarios.
Veludo noted this was only the first study of its kind.
Future efforts to collect 5G levels in the environment for cell phone users would continue, with repeat studies to be conducted in nine more European nations over the next three years:
As we have previously revealed with our 5G tower location feature piece, many rural regions in Australia are exposed to 5G tower upgrades, and this study — although not conducted in Australia — gives an interesting insight.
In Australia, our radiation watchdog is adamant that 5G is safe for human health, nothing that there is ‘no scientific evidence that the technology poses a threat’.
Of course, this is because there had been no long-term studies yet to disprove it, with much of the outdated data underpinning the ‘safety’ either from decades ago.. or not realistically taking into account biological health.
But now the studies are beginning to come out, highlighting health concerns, just a few years after the ‘conspiracy theorists’ called for a halt to the rollout until more research had been established.
Research into a next-generation grid that is now all around us here in Australia.
AUSTRALIA’S EXPANSION
TOTT News has warning about Australia’s 5G rollout before it eventuated, as the next-generation technology was pushed to a swift expansion in 2020.
Ironically, this aligned perfectly with the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’, as lockdowns were used to roll out towers while everyone stayed put inside of their houses.
Many conspiracies circulated at the time that sickness effects could potentially be the turning on of this network, which TOTT News didn’t subscribe too (we called it a hoax from the start), but many did explore.
This forced the telecommunications provider to deny the claims publicly, but in doing so, admitted there was no established health effects — rather than just dismissing the notion that the ‘virus’ was because of the network.
But, even if the hoax virus was 5G, this doesn’t mean the technology doesn’t have health effects.
In just the few years that have passed since the rollout, many groups have campaigned to reveal the truth behind so-called ‘safety standards’, including using a non-human dummy for exposure testing.
Many articles, including one in the Scientific American publication, have questioned just why the ‘experts’ should be trusted when it comes to the safety surrounding this technology.
Many protests occurred across Australia in resistance to the rollout of 5G, as covered here on the website, including tense battles in the Northern Rivers region over installations of towers.
Some regions successfully blocked the installation of future towers, including in the Lathlain and Currumbin Valley areas, after campaigning at the local level.
But these types of stories are very few-and-far-between. In 2022, after the conclusion of 5G mmWave auctions, the technology was finally ready to reach full power, after previously operating on the backend of 4GX.
Now, many cities, public spaces, football stadiums, hospitals, libraries.. even garbage trucks.. are all being equipped the technology, and the public has embraced it on newer smart phone models.
Concerns are not just surrounding health, either. 5G is the power of the smart city dystopia that is taking over Australia, and is helping to power artificial intelligence, to bring in a new era of control.
It seems that many people just forgot about the 5G storm when the ‘pandemic’ conveniently hit, but the concerns are still real to this day, especially after the discontinuation of the 3G network recently.
But groups are still campaigning in their local areas, for which you can find a list of at the link below:
What are your thoughts on this new study?
Would you have anticipated that individual active use exposure would be higher in rural regions?
Be sure to leave your thoughts in the comment section below!
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hi ethan
Lets put aside the miraculous and incredibly convenient/opportunistic timing of Convid and subsequent ‘roll-out’ of 5G Towers all over the world (let alone just Australia), not to mention the ‘ready-to-go’ contractors, wharehouses stacked with all the necessary ‘tech’ and equipment, local government approvals and pin-point accurate site loccations – leaving all this behind because its done now – can we just please ask the simple question which i never hear any broadcasters, or sites like Totts ask –
How much power do these towers consume ?
They are not connected with a ‘kettle-chord’ if you have taken the time to observe.
Why, in this time of ‘footprint obsessed’ earth-protectors (due to human caused climate change),
do we never hear them ask this simple question.
What do these Tech-laden, monlithic towers chew-up on a daily basis ?
Surely some main-stream current affairs crew would have a nice juicy story to cook up on this topic.
What do you reckon Ethan ?
thanks for your work
pete
That’s a good question, Pete. Thanks for your comment.
I’ll have a look into it!
Humanity was so much freer when phones were tethered to your house!