Staff Reporter :
A base transceiver station of a cell phone tower is emitting excessive radiation, says a government’s report on Wednesday.
This excessive radiation is unsafe and harmful for public health, said the report prepared by an expert committee after examining radiation from some mobile towers in capital Dhaka. Earlier in 2013, the health ministry formed the expert committee following the High Court order.
Deputy Attorney General Kazi Jinat Haque placed the report to the HC yesterday
with suggestion to instruct Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to take steps to reduce the excessive radiation of the cell phone tower.
The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Salim fixed March 29 for passing an order on this issue.
A base transceiver station is a piece of equipment that facilitates wireless communication between user equipment (UE) and a network. UEs are devices like mobile phones (handsets), WLL phones, and computers with wireless Internet connectivity.
Cellular (cell) phones first became widely available in the country at the end of the 1990s, but since then their use has increased dramatically.
The widespread use of cell phones has led to cell phone towers being placed in many communities.
These towers, also called base stations, have electronic equipment and antennas that receive and transmit radio frequency signals.
Radiation is transmission of energy in the form of waves through space or a material medium. Radiation is of two kinds – ionising and non-ionising. Ionising radiation or high energy radiation like X-rays or gamma rays can alter DNA and be harmful. Non-ionising radiation is low energy as emitted by mobile phones or tower radios and tends to generate heat.
Sometimes mobile tower is being installed on the tops of buildings. Mobile towers are especially dangerous because they emit microwaves at a frequency of 1900 MHz.
Recent studies have shown that the intense radioactivity from mobile phone towers adversely impacts every biological organism within one square kilometer.
In 2012, the HC ordered the government to examine the radiation of rays from mobile-phone towers and their impacts on health and environment and to submit two separate reports to it.
In response to a writ petition, the court asked the chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission to examine the radiation after visiting some towers of different mobile phones and to submit a report to it in four weeks.
Besides, it also ordered the health secretary to form a seven-member expert committee in a week to assess the impacts of radiation on human body and environment and to submit a report.
A base transceiver station of a cell phone tower is emitting excessive radiation, says a government’s report on Wednesday.
This excessive radiation is unsafe and harmful for public health, said the report prepared by an expert committee after examining radiation from some mobile towers in capital Dhaka. Earlier in 2013, the health ministry formed the expert committee following the High Court order.
Deputy Attorney General Kazi Jinat Haque placed the report to the HC yesterday
with suggestion to instruct Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to take steps to reduce the excessive radiation of the cell phone tower.
The HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Salim fixed March 29 for passing an order on this issue.
A base transceiver station is a piece of equipment that facilitates wireless communication between user equipment (UE) and a network. UEs are devices like mobile phones (handsets), WLL phones, and computers with wireless Internet connectivity.
Cellular (cell) phones first became widely available in the country at the end of the 1990s, but since then their use has increased dramatically.
The widespread use of cell phones has led to cell phone towers being placed in many communities.
These towers, also called base stations, have electronic equipment and antennas that receive and transmit radio frequency signals.
Radiation is transmission of energy in the form of waves through space or a material medium. Radiation is of two kinds – ionising and non-ionising. Ionising radiation or high energy radiation like X-rays or gamma rays can alter DNA and be harmful. Non-ionising radiation is low energy as emitted by mobile phones or tower radios and tends to generate heat.
Sometimes mobile tower is being installed on the tops of buildings. Mobile towers are especially dangerous because they emit microwaves at a frequency of 1900 MHz.
Recent studies have shown that the intense radioactivity from mobile phone towers adversely impacts every biological organism within one square kilometer.
In 2012, the HC ordered the government to examine the radiation of rays from mobile-phone towers and their impacts on health and environment and to submit two separate reports to it.
In response to a writ petition, the court asked the chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission to examine the radiation after visiting some towers of different mobile phones and to submit a report to it in four weeks.
Besides, it also ordered the health secretary to form a seven-member expert committee in a week to assess the impacts of radiation on human body and environment and to submit a report.
