A call to arms over cellular antennas
Residents, concerned about radiation being emitted from mounted structures, file complaints
Sunday, October 05, 2008
By GLENN NYBACK
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As a telecommunications company nears completion of installing hundreds of poletop cellular antennas on Staten Island, residents who live near them are ramping up their fight to have them removed.
Concerns about radiation from the structures -- in which NextG Networks has mounted antennas to the top of street light and utility poles to improve cell phone reception in dead zones -- are causing residents from Westerleigh to Great Kills to file complaints with city, state and federal agencies.
It likely won't do much to help their cause, however.
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Informant: Lawrence A. Plumlee
Sunday, October 05, 2008
By GLENN NYBACK
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As a telecommunications company nears completion of installing hundreds of poletop cellular antennas on Staten Island, residents who live near them are ramping up their fight to have them removed.
Concerns about radiation from the structures -- in which NextG Networks has mounted antennas to the top of street light and utility poles to improve cell phone reception in dead zones -- are causing residents from Westerleigh to Great Kills to file complaints with city, state and federal agencies.
It likely won't do much to help their cause, however.
Read More...
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1223199924162640.xml&coll=1
Informant: Lawrence A. Plumlee
rudkla - 6. Okt, 09:03
