Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns

Danny Crichton @dannycrichton / 2 weeks ago

The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn’t stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the future.

The city council of Mill Valley, a small town located just a few miles north of San Francisco, voted unanimously late last week to effectively block deployments of small-cell 5G wireless towers in the city’s residential areas.

Through an urgency ordinance, which allows the city council to immediately enact regulations that affect the health and safety of the community, the restrictions and prohibitions will be put into force immediately for all future applications to site 5G telecommunications equipment in the city. Applications for commercial districts are permitted under the passed ordinance.

The ordinance was driven by community concerns over the health effects of 5G wireless antennas. According to the city, it received 145 pieces of correspondence from citizens voicing opposition to the technology, compared to just five letters in support of it — a ratio of 29 to 1. While that may not sound like much, the city’s population is roughly 14,000, indicating that about 1% of the population had voiced an opinion on the matter.

Blocks on 5G deployments are nothing new for Marin County, where other cities including San Anselmo and Ross have passed similar ordinances designed to thwart 5G expansion efforts over health concerns.

These restrictions on small cell site deployments could complicate 5G’s upcoming nationwide rollout. While 5G standards have yet to be standardized, one model that has broad traction in the telecommunications industry is to use so-called “small cell” antennas to increase bandwidth and connection quality while reducing infrastructure and power costs. Smaller antennas are easier to install and will be loss obtrusive, reducing the concerns of urban preservationists to unsightly tower masts that have long plagued the deployment of 4G antennas in communities across the United States.

Perhaps most importantly, these small cells emit less radiation, since they are not designed to provide as wide of coverage as traditional cell sites. The telecom industry has long vociferously denied a link between antennas and health outcomes, although California’s Department of Public Health has issued warnings about potential health effects of personal cell phone antennas. Reduced radiation emissions from 5G antennas compared to 4G antennas would presumably further reduce any health effects of this technology.

Restrictions like Mill Valley’s will make it nearly impossible to deploy 5G in a timely manner. As one industry representative told me in an interview a few months ago, “It takes 18 months to get the permit to deploy, and 2 hours to install.” Multiplied by the hundreds of sites required to cover a reasonably-sized urban neighborhood, and the 5G rollout goes beyond daunting to well-near impossible.

While health concerns have bubbled in various municipalities, those concerns are not shared globally. China, through companies like Huawei, is investing billions of dollars to design and build 5G infrastructure, in hopes of stealing the industry crown from the United States, which is the market leader in 4G technologies.

Those competitive concerns have increasingly been a priority at the FCC, where chairman Ajit Pai and his fellow Republican commissioners have pushed hard to overcome local concerns around health and historical preservation. The commission voted earlier this year on new siting rules that would accelerate 5G adoption.

Mill Valley’s ordinance is designed to frustrate those efforts, while remaining within the letter of federal law, which preempts local ordinances. Mill Valley’s mayor has said that the city will look to create a final ordinance over the next year.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/10/bay-area-city-blocks-5g-deployments-over-cancer-concerns/

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Designed and made in Israel, the Zionists are rolling out 5G in the US, Australia, UK, New Zealand, Canada but not Israel until well after 2020 which means never!

When it look and smells like they are testing a weapon on unsuspecting populations, they are!
(Research 5G human/environmental effects)

We as a people must decide whether we are going to be led to the slaughter willingly through ignorance, or we dig our heals in and fight the invaders tooth and nail...

Israel is not our friend, they are in fact our mortal enemies with a deep hatred for what we stand for.

The people who understand what is going on are fighting against censorship, harassment and intimidation to bring this information to you. We have a very small window of opportunity to wake as many people as possible to what lies ahead. For some it is already too late..

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California Bans 5G Cell Tower Over Claims It Causes Cancer

September 15, 2018 Sean Adl-Tabatabai

As 5G technology rolls out across America, one city in California has banned the use of 5G cell towers over concerns they cause cancer.

The city of Mill Valley, CA, voted unanimously to ban in the installation of new cell towers carrying the deadly technology, following a massive outpouring of concern from members of the public.

Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: The city enacted an “urgency ordinance” after it received over a hundred letters from concerned citizens expressing their worries over the new 5G towers.

As Tech Crunch reports:

Mill Valley residents cited multiple studies which claim that experts have found evidence that cell phone radiation can cause cancer.

The town of 14,000 now joins several other towns who’ve blocked the installation of 5G over health concerns. Before Mill Valley blocked 5G, other municipalities in California, such as Marin County and San Anselmo, passed similar ordinances.

Similar movements to block 5G have taken place across the country as well.

“The cell towers are called small cell towers, but they are not so small when they are in your front yard,” said Donna Baron, a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland who is actively protesting the installation of 5G in her town.

“This will cause cancer,” she said.

Concerns over cell phone radiation are nothing new. It is a fact that cell phones emit radiation. It is also a fact that this radiation can be absorbed by the human body from prolonged exposure.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radio frequency fields from cell phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans. IARC interprets the classification as meaning there is limited evidence showing radiofrequency carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.

For perspective, IARC has classified the following other agents as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”: Coffee, Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (power line frequency), and Talc-based body powder.

Because cell phone radiation exposure is relatively new and constantly evolving, long term studies are still ongoing.

The International Cohort Study on Mobile Phone Users (COSMOS) is conducting a study which aims to conduct long-term health monitoring of a large group of people to determine if there are any health issues linked with long-term exposure to radio frequency energy from cell phone use. The COSMOS study will follow approximately 300,000 adult cell phone users in Europe for 20 to 30 years.

As 5G has yet to be fully implemented, the data on its radiation is even less extensive. However, California’s Department of Public Health has issued warnings about potential health effects of personal cell phone antennas.

As TFTP previously reported, this information was just released, after years of being hidden from the public. Last year, California Department of Public Health officials finally released a draft document outlining health concerns stemming from cellphone radiation — including multiple cancers and infertility.

“We have evidence of brain tumors and other head and neck tumors. We also have evidence of sperm damage in males, infertility in females,” explained Joel Moskowitz of U.C. Berkeley’s School of Public Health, who sued the state in 2016 under the California Public Records Act to obtain the information.

https://yournewswire.com/california-bans-5g-cancer/

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5G mobile revolution designed in Israel

Qualcomm Israel's Assaf Touboul and Ronen Sheashua tell "Globes" about the unheard-of download speeds and greener networks coming soon.

Qualcomm Israel VP technology Assaf Touboul starts the conversation with an unequivocal statement: "Qualcomm's first 5G cellular was developed in Israel in Hod Hasharon, and will be launched in 2019." The pride he feels at this enormous achievement is unmistakable.

Touboul founded Ra'anana-based DesignArt, acquired by Qualcomm in 2012. Qualcomm Israel VP engineering Ronen Sheashua worked with him, and they are continuing to develop what they began at DesignArt - advanced developments for future generations of mobile communications.

Qualcomm needs no introduction. It is a leading global developer of chips and processors for mobile communications networks. Its development center in Hod Hasharon is leading the most advanced technology - the DNA of mobile communications.

Touboul: "Qualcomm is developing chips, and the first generation of 5G is being developed here.

"Globes": Explain yourself.

"5G is an umbrella of various technologies that covers many spheres. The first and most common is the Internet of Things (IoT) - connecting a great many devices to the Internet, such as refrigerators, lighting, garbage cans, and cameras. We aren't focusing on this so much. We're more interested in developing the ability to achieve very high bandwidth speeds with very low latency."

What does that mean?

"A capacity of about 50 times what there is now on 4G, with shorter latencies (response times, G.P.) than there are today. What this actually does is facilitate very dynamic interactivity with the Internet.

"This means that processing, which currently takes place on the device, will take place on the cloud or the Internet in the future. Processing for the use of apps will take place on the cloud, not the device. Due to the high speed made possible by 5G, however, the user will not feel the difference at all; he will still feel that processing is taking place within his device. This provides opportunities for a great many new apps in augmented reality, for example, which require many capacities, and also in autonomous cars."

What other possibilities does 5G mobile provide?

"It can only be imagined. It's revolution, not evolution. A mobile device will run much more quickly for the user, and the experience will feel completely different. It also means that new operators will be able to enter and play on new fields, because we're talking about completely new frequency ranges that will be operated in 5G above 6 gigahertz and in the 28-39 gigahertz range."

Sheashua: "Because the frequency is higher, the technology changes and takes the form of a beam between the device and the site. This enables the operator to provide services efficiently in crowded places, such as stadiums and airports, for example, where there's a severe problem of interference. The high frequency operates like a laser beam between the cellular towers and the device."

As people who came from DesignArt, what is your part in the project?

Touboul: "Qualcomm acquired the company because it found the sector very attractive. Activity here has greatly expanded, and we have managed to bring the first development of the 5G modem to the site here in Israel. With the demand and highly developed capabilities, we have managed to create the first generation of the introduction to 5G."

Sheashua: "You could call it a pre-standard device."

When you say "early standard," you are referring to a 5G launch even before 2020, the target date for the global standards institutes.

"We're working on the early standard. Had you spoken to me a year ago, I would have told you that 5G would be deployed in 2020 at the earliest. Today, I'm telling you that 5G will be deployed in 2019. Why? Because everything was speeded up by a year - the operators, the network manufactures, and the technology developers, i.e. us, have accelerated deployment. Verizon and KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom, G.P.) have pushed the pre-standard forward. This was seen all over the world, and the standards institutes were unwilling to let anyone get there before them, so they hurried to complete the standard as quickly as possible, and brought it forward by a year, to 2019. What they actually did was to split the standard into two, with everything pertaining to faster speeds and surfing being brought forward by a year, while in everything pertaining to IoT apps, the standard will be completed in 2020."

Do you also have an interest in having the standard completed sooner?

Touboul "We're developing all the time at a very fast pace. This is the dynamics of an Israeli startup. We brought out dynamic to a large group, and we made the timetable significantly shorter than what had originally been planned."

Why will the standard relating to IoT be delayed?

Sheashua: "It looks like 4G will take care of everything having to do with IoT. The apps there don't require the low latency needed in 5G apps."

Touboul: "The big step forward in IoT will be in masses of devices connected to the Internet. In 2015, there were 10 billion devices. The number grew to 12 billion in 2016, and it will only get bigger. 4G networks can cope with a scale like that. 5G is actually designed to cope with integration of areas and connected devices. Think of a base station with tens of thousands of devices connected to it, including streetlights, sensors, cameras, and so forth. Dealing with the standards for this has great technological significance."

You said that a revolution was involved.

Touboul: "There's something very correct about this. First of all, it brings a lot more spectrum into the game. Now that we're developing 28 gigahertz and 39 gigahertz, and there's a lot of spectrum there, it gives the operators a lot of breathing room. The second thing is the low latency we mentioned. Everyone's talking about capacity, but the low latency is just as important, and just as complicated."

In the not-too-distant future, we'll see many more cell towers here in Israel. What does that mean to you?

Sheashua: "It's good for us, because instead of one large site with strong broadcasting, there will be many cells with weak broadcasting. As soon as you've got a cell like that with a modem in the room, capacity goes down, and there's less radiation from the phone."

It looks like it won't be easy to do in Israel.

Touboul: "There are solutions like this here in Israel, too, which will increase - a modem that is actually a miniature cellular station inside the house and connected to the Internet. It's the integration of WiFi with cellular, and we spotted it already in 4G. This is a small base station that provides service at home, and it's the chip we made, on which we compressed an entire base station."

It can be in a home, but also on an electrical pole or a bus station.

Sheashua: "Yes. With T-Mobile, we worked in cooperation, and that's what they did. They gave them a home base station in order to solve the problem of coverage, which is a difficult thing in the US. So you have landline Internet, and connect it to the Internet in the back, and all the distribution is within the home."

In other words, there will be a variety of small sites.

Touboul: "Correct. One of the biggest emphases is green base stations - for example, preventing the base stations from broadcasting in the middle of the night if it is unnecessary. All the technology has brought up the question of low capacities and green technologies."

"A good user experience in Israel"

As someone who knows the US market well, what is it like to experience the networks in the US, as opposed to Israel?

Sheashua: "The networks in Israel are excellent, but it's because we're a small country, and the result is that coverage is much better than in the US. The user experience here is better."

Touboul: "The leading countries in 5G are South Korea and the US. South Korea is an example of a country that operates between developers and networks in an interesting way, and it also comes from above the networks. There will be 5G there in 2018 - I mean pre-5G that will provide the user with 5 Gbps (for the sake of comparison, the current effective speeds in Israel are 40-50 Mbps, G.P.).

Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns

California Bans 5G Cell Tower Over Claims It Causes Cancer

5G mobile revolution designed in Israel

Qualcomm Israel's Assaf Touboul and Ronen Sheashua tell "Globes" about the unheard-of download speeds and greener networks coming soon.

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