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Use mobiles on speaker mode, say IIT-B experts
Chittaranjan Tembhekar I
TNN
Mumbai: Do not talk for more than six minutes a day on your cell phone to avoid radiation, TITBombay and telecom sector experts said on Friday. The options are to put the phone on speaker mode and hold it at least a foot away from your body or use a headset. They suggested putting up a wire mesh or water curtains, or growing plants to prevent radiation from cell, TV or FM towers in the vicinity of 500 metres to one km. You can complain to the authorities against the towers. These facts were recently brought to the fore by an interministerial committee of experts formed by the ministry of communications and information technology to study hazards posed by cell phones and towers. Experts warned that many anti-radiation chips in the market are fake and said radiation from cell phones and towers posed serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbances in your digestive system and sleep disorders. lIT-Bombay professor Girish Kumar warned against cell phone usage for more than six minutes a day as handsets have a specific absorption rate (capacity to absorb radiation) of 1.6 watts per kg and thus can absorb radiation only for six minutes a day and later can harm the body. "After formally speaking on the cell phone, one should switch to a Iandline phone," he added, pointing out that the brain had a high risk of getting affected by radiation.
He said the antennas of repeaters near residential areas or working stations should not give a radiation frequency of more than 0.1 watts. Similarly Kumar said, the ideal wattage for cell towers should be two watts in densely populated urban areas. "Shockingly, towers give off radiation of up to 400 watts as more carriers are fitted on the antennas. A microwave is of 500watt capacity so imagine the effect towers can leave on your body," he added. According to Kumar, wi-fi, of not more than 100
Speak on your mobile phone for not more than 6 minutes a day, hold it at least a foot away from your body or use a headset to avoid radiation
mw, should also be switched off when not in use. Consumer activist Achintya Mukherjee said telecom companies should connect base stations and subsidiary stations with optic fibre cables and create low radiation wireless-like inbuilt solutions to disseminate signals of low wattage. Anil Prakash, president, Telecom Users Groups of India, demanded that the government should force telecom companies to do a self-certification of towers and experts must conduct random tests. There should also be a warning in a cell tower area that no one should come within nine metres of its periphery
Chittaranjan Tembhekar I
TNN
Mumbai: Do not talk for more than six minutes a day on your cell phone to avoid radiation, TITBombay and telecom sector experts said on Friday. The options are to put the phone on speaker mode and hold it at least a foot away from your body or use a headset. They suggested putting up a wire mesh or water curtains, or growing plants to prevent radiation from cell, TV or FM towers in the vicinity of 500 metres to one km. You can complain to the authorities against the towers. These facts were recently brought to the fore by an interministerial committee of experts formed by the ministry of communications and information technology to study hazards posed by cell phones and towers. Experts warned that many anti-radiation chips in the market are fake and said radiation from cell phones and towers posed serious health risks, including loss of memory, lack of concentration, disturbances in your digestive system and sleep disorders. lIT-Bombay professor Girish Kumar warned against cell phone usage for more than six minutes a day as handsets have a specific absorption rate (capacity to absorb radiation) of 1.6 watts per kg and thus can absorb radiation only for six minutes a day and later can harm the body. "After formally speaking on the cell phone, one should switch to a Iandline phone," he added, pointing out that the brain had a high risk of getting affected by radiation.
He said the antennas of repeaters near residential areas or working stations should not give a radiation frequency of more than 0.1 watts. Similarly Kumar said, the ideal wattage for cell towers should be two watts in densely populated urban areas. "Shockingly, towers give off radiation of up to 400 watts as more carriers are fitted on the antennas. A microwave is of 500watt capacity so imagine the effect towers can leave on your body," he added. According to Kumar, wi-fi, of not more than 100
Speak on your mobile phone for not more than 6 minutes a day, hold it at least a foot away from your body or use a headset to avoid radiation
mw, should also be switched off when not in use. Consumer activist Achintya Mukherjee said telecom companies should connect base stations and subsidiary stations with optic fibre cables and create low radiation wireless-like inbuilt solutions to disseminate signals of low wattage. Anil Prakash, president, Telecom Users Groups of India, demanded that the government should force telecom companies to do a self-certification of towers and experts must conduct random tests. There should also be a warning in a cell tower area that no one should come within nine metres of its periphery
