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Long Island Town Enacts Tough Cell Tower Limits
crimeandpunishment writes "They're getting tougher on towers on Long Island. The town of Hempstead, NY has imposed some of the toughest cell phone tower restrictions in the country. The ordinance prohibits wireless equipment within 1,500 feet of homes, schools, day care centers, and houses of worship, unless the company can prove absolute need. A spokesman for Verizon says, 'It's not unheard of for towns to have issues, but this is extreme,' and says this makes 95 percent of the town off limits to future antenna construction." With internet access by 3G, 4G and WiMax getting ever more common, I suspect that not everyone in the town will appreciate blocking out the companies that provide it.
Probably the whacky politicians read a report about "dangerous EM emissions causing cancer and headaches and other scary things" so they decided to ban transmitters. (Not directly of course, but this law has the same effect.)
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Yes but the tower which is a great distance away produces absolutely minuscule power in your head compared to having a 1 watt transmitter next to your ear. There needs to be an adjustment yes, but the adjustment is much smaller than you imagine for a large number of operating conditions. The problem here is the changes in power are proportional and the doubling of power from say half a watt to 1 watt for say 30min is significant compared to the reduction in power from a few tens of mW by half for the rest of the day.
Well there's that and the fact that to meet cell coverage the operator is likely to increase power output of the antenna if they legally can.