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5G networks

Reading the news, it appears that the UK will give Huawei a limited role on 5G networks in the UK.  Leaving technical aspects, practicalities and logistics as well as security issues aside, I seem to remember that last year concerns were expressed on the effects on health that 5G is (was?) supposed to have.Were these concerns every proved unfounded?Thank you

Ivonne Holliday ● 2479d11 Comments

I don't know Iyvonne, but I do know that Hawaei already has a large role in our internet routers and a lot of our mobile services.I don't know how dangerous it is, but Mr Trump is always only looking our for the trade, maybe he wants to put in his own US tech??

Bunny Payne ● 2478d

Hello Bunny,I agree with you and I think the US tech is very much behind the US' one.We live in a globalized economy and it is difficult to refrain China as it is emerging at a tremendous pace whilst others are shrinking.I am very confused about the whole thing - as you may have gathered, I am not an IT specialist!

Ivonne Holliday ● 2478d

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/08/anti_5g_poster_banned_unsubstantiated_cancer_claims/

Matt Palmer ● 2478d

Nutters. They protested at the introduction of 4g too. I have a Facebook friend who shares the anti-5g propaganda and it’s all total mumbo-jumbo conspiracy cobblers.

Freddie Francis ● 2478d

My goodness, I thought I had posted my response to this but it has disappeared!Thank you for your response and I wanted to find out who The Register were.  I found "About us" but it did not really shed any light.Do you know who they are?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2478d

Hello FreddieI am still at a loss!  There were reports some time ago saying that 5G could be detrimental to your health.As far as I understand it, there will be masts on every lamppost for it.  I do not know if it is true (should I?), but a little bit of clarity other than mumbo-jumbo conspiracy cobblers would be helpful!

Ivonne Holliday ● 2478d

Just Google 5g or search it on YouTube and you get loads of paranoid links. They’re full of the same types who think we never went to the moon or that vapour trails from aircraft is some sort of government conspiracy using chemicals to control the population, which oddly isn’t affecting them, obviously.

Freddie Francis ● 2478d

The Register is well known in IT and technology circles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_RegisterIt's part of Situation Publishers, although it current owners are a little unclear but its new and comments are independent.

Michael Ixer ● 2478d

Hi Ivonne, 'The Register' is an IT news site, i refer to it every day.

Matt Palmer ● 2478d

Thank you Matt.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2478d

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/21/ofcom_measured_5g_radiation_and_found_that_no_it_wont_give_you_cancer/UK comms regulator Ofcom today published the results of its latest spectrum measurement tests, which tracked electromagnetic field emissions at 16 of the busiest 5G sites.It found emissions that were a minute fraction of the globally recognised dangerous levels. The maximum measured at any of the test sites was 1.5 per cent of the levels set by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).

Matt Palmer ● 2455d