If you’re planning on sipping a few pints in the Baffins Inn in Portsmouth soon, you should get decent mobile reception. Well, you will if you’re on T-Mobile, anyway. The operator has just won approval for its plan to fix three new masts to the pub’s chimney.
It faced stiff opposition from the local community, mind. The pub is next to a pond containing ducks, geese and swans, so wildlife campaigners aren’t happy. Presumably because the birds are all on Vodafone.
I would make a joke about how ironic it is that pubs are helping their punters avoid lung cancer by banning smoking, while at the same time giving them brain cancer from mobile masts on the chimney. But OBVIOUSLY, that would be a ridiculous assertion with no basis in scientific fact. *eyes lawyers nervously*
(Via Portsmouth Today)
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What terrific news!
Over 1000 independent studies, linking phone masts electro magnetic radiation with serious ill health including cancer, confirm that masts should not be sited within 350 metres of schools or housing. Phone operators dismiss such research, alleging that their own studies suggests no health risk. However last month the national press revealed that T-Mobile covered up the damaging results of their own research. The Ecolog Institute, a research organisation which examins the health effects of mobile phones, was commissioned by T-Mobile to investigate the possible health risks of mobile phone masts. The 2003 Ecolog report confirmed:
‘Given the results of the present epidemiological studies, it can be concluded that electromagnetic fields with frequencies in the mobile telecommunications range do play a role in the development of cancer. This is particularly notable for tumours of the central nervous system.’
The idea that unelected bodies (the mobile phone companies) have a right to expose people to the very real harm caused by phone mast electro magnetic radiation, amounts to enrolling the population in a giant biological experiment without their consent. Considering that children, the most vulnerable of all, are included in this experiment, it is shameful that their interests are disregarded so cynically in the pursuit of profit.
Well i totally agree, I am electro-sensitive to mobile masts and would like to find out about that report that says that masts should be 350m away from schools/houses. The mobile operators and the goverment should be liable for this infringement on our healths.
People have mobile masts on top of their houses here in Japan — phone providers pay houseowners to agree to have them. Pros: you can get a strong signal virtually anywhere in Japan. Cons: we’re all gonna die.