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By gna

Technology | Tue, 02 Sep 2008

Nana Kwaku Bio, Chief of Essienimpong in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region, has expressed concern about the increasing rate at which telecommunication mast were being erected across the country.

He was of the opinion that these masts had some health risk pose by electromagnetic radiation, hence the need to check its spread.

Nana Kwaku Bio expressed the concern in an interview with Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Essienimpong on Friday.

He explained that telecommunication masts, which were supposed to be far from human settlement were now been built in the mist of human settlement and this was posing serious health threat to those who stayed closed to the masts.

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http://www.modernghana.com/news/181224/1/chief-expresses-concern-about-increases-in-telecom.html

Evening Telegraph - UK

Communications giant T-Mobile has said a controversial phone mast in the Downfield area of Dundee will not be removed until later this month (writes Jennifer Cosgrove).

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http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2008/09/02/story11904638t0.shtm

Sep 2 2008 by David James, South Wales Echo

A PROTEST against a future mobile phone mast has been organised after it was granted planning permission. Residents plan to wave placards and banners ...

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/09/02/asylum-campaigners-launch-newsletter-91466-21651126/

Some residents in the Knights Road area are concerned that they haven't been consulted over a proposal to erect a telecommunications microwave tower and related equipment on top of the Waterloo Interchange building.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4677996a25482.html

28 August 2008

By JENNY MONROE

AS children across the city prepare to head back for the new term, one local school is so concerned about the possible health affects of the Wi-Fi network - a way of connecting computers to the internet without cables - it has decided not to use the system.

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http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk:80/news/PRIMARY-PULLS-PLUG-ON-WIFI.4435678.jp


Informant: Martin Weatherall



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Wi-Fi

PROPOSALS have been put forward for another mobile phone mast in Seaford.

Vodafone wants to put up a 10-metre telegraph pole at the junction of Sutton Avenue and Eastbourne Road and has applied to Lewes District Council for permission.

The site is only a short distance from where Vodafone wanted to put a similar mast on the Sutton Corner junction but abandoned it after residents' protests. The controversial plans also come as a similar application by the mobile phone giant in another part of the town was recently objected to by Seaford Town Council.

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http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/seaford/Another-plan-for-a-mobile.4427972.jp

A mobile phone giant may not need permission to site a 12-metre mast near homes and two schools in Shrewsbury, a public meeting in Frankwell has heard.

Protesters successfully stopped O2 erecting a 12.5 metre antenna near their homes in Copthorne.

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http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/08/29/mast-may-go-ahead/