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Mobile phone masts and health in the news againHere's a great item on mobile phone masts by the Telegraph's Ian Douglas - and it's one with a great twist at the end. The erection of a new mobile phone mast is often met with local opposition, with complaints of headaches and rashes among the postbag. Sincere people report that their symptoms disappear when they spend time away from the mast, only to have them appear again when they return. iBurst, the South African mobile network, had just that experience when they built a tower in Fourways Memorial Park near the town of Craigavon near Johannesburg, in August of last year. A member of the Craigavon Task Force, a local residents’ group, emailed to say that local people had suffered from ‘headaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, gastric imbalances and totally disrupted sleep patterns, especially with some of the children.’ The network called a meeting to say that the mast was very low powered and there was really no possibility of those phenomena appearing due to the signals coming from the mast, as there was no medical evidence that such radiation was harmful. Still they persisted, and iBurst agreed to turn off the tower at a meeting on the 16th of November, revealing that in fact the tower had already been off for six weeks, and no signal had been present in Craigavon while the reports of illness had taken place. The Craigavon Task Force insists it will continue to fight against the tower and that their objections were never confined to health complaints, but iBurst report that follow-up community meetings have been less well attended. Hat tip: mybroadband.co.za Read the full article:
Our thanks to Lee, M0HOK for spotting this item
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