World Radiocommunications Group OKs New WLAN Spectrum

BenFranske writes "The World Radiocommunications Conference will allow a portion of spectrum in the 5GHz band to be used for WLANs, a decision hailed as a 'defining moment' for the WLAN industry. Although this doesn't impact the US much as this spectrum is already being used for wireless networking here, this will help standardize the frequencies worldwide."

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And Our Health?

[joaommp]

I just want to see how it would be in a few years, when we all start to suffer from the radiation effects. Even at 2.4 Gig, 0.2W you can already feel some headache if you are sensitive. A CISCO 1100 at my university campus was at it's highest power and everybody in a 10m radius was feeling headache. But 5GHz? Is everyone trying to cook us making this place a big microwave oven? Way too dangerous. I sincerely hope they apply the radio tariffs here to it, as they applied to CB and everything else. I can see some of my friends using it, but I see nobody needing it. My friends are just beeing snob...