the FCC has made availablewill allow telecom companies to buy up to 3 GHz of contiguous spectrum at auction,they will legally be allowed to emit an effective radiated power of up to 900,000 wattsif they own that much spectrum. The base stations emitting power like that will belocated on the sidewalk. They will be small rectangular structures mounted on top ofutility poles.

Base stations have to be very close
together—100 meters apart in cities—and they have to blast out their signals in order
to get them inside homes and buildings. And the only way to do this economically is
with phased arrays and focused beams that are aimed directly at their targets. What
happens to birds that fly through the beams, the FCC does not say. And what
happens to utility workers who climb utility poles and work next to these structures
everyday? A 30,000-watt beam will cook an egg, or an eye, at a distance of a few
feet.
The power from a base station will be distributed among as many devices as are
connected at the same time. When a lot of people are using their phones
simultaneously, everyone’s phone will slow down but the amount of radiation in each
beam will be less. When you are the only person using your phone—for example,
late at night—your data speed will be blisteringly fast but most of the radiation from
the cell tower will be aimed at you.

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Deep penetration into the body
Another important fact about radiation from phased array antennas is this: it
penetrates much deeper into the human body and the assumptions that the FCC’s
exposure limits are based on do not apply. This was brought to everyone’s attention
by Dr. Richard Albanese of Brooks Air Force Base in connection with PAVE PAWS
and was reported on in Microwave News in 2002. When an ordinary electromagnetic
field enters the body, it causes charges to move and currents to flow. But when
extremely short electromagnetic pulses enter the body, something else happens: the
moving charges themselves become little antennas that re-radiate the
electromagnetic field and send it deeper into the body. These re-radiated waves are
called Brillouin precursors. They become significant when either the power or the
phase of the waves changes rapidly enough. 5G will probably satisfy both
requirements. This means that the reassurance we are being given—that these
millimeter waves are too short to penetrate far into the body—is not true.
In the United States, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are all competing to