Another solution is a world-wide effort to update infrastructure (better throughput, either hardware or software). But who's gonna pay for that? The last mile ISP's can't and won't and granted, it's not fair they should pay all of it.
Um, in the US, we're already paying for it. We have since the late 90's when congress passed huge tax breaks on to telcos to develop our 40Mbps connections - you have one of those don't you? The telco's promised us one years ago, I'm sure mine is just around the corner.
Oh, we're getting 40Mbps... it's just that 38Mbps of it is clogged with spam, pop-up seizure inducing ads, internet urban legends and MySpace's bandwidth hogging interface (again, all those ads).
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If the Blackberry is a security risk, so is a pen. That's why NewSpeak is just around the corner.
Remove the language of terrorism, and you can't express the ideas.
yeah... right... that'll work.
Agreed on the portable end of things. I've seen a barrage of outlandish explanations by people who think they know and end up making the situation worse.
Now if we could just make some progress on the concept of RF "radiation" not being the same as isotopic "radiation", we might get somewhere past the foil hats of the alarmists.
"A cell phone that is far from the nearest tower can transmit up to one watt. A typical home router transmits 100 mW (one tenth of a cell phone). A very powerful cell tower transmits 1000 W."...
Um, not anywhere on planet earth. Typical output power from the final amplifier stage of an 800MHz cell amplifier is nowhere above 25-30w at the very most. 1900MHz CDMA cells average between 4w and 15w max output at those frequencies. If you can provide data on any cell tower with final amplifier output in even the 100W range let-alone 1000W, I'd love to see it....
"However, signal intensity per surface unit decreases as the square of the distance. So if you are 100 meters (300 feet, one-half furlong for our US friends) from a 1-kW cell tower, you get the same exposure as if you are one metter (0.005 furlong, 3 ft) from a wifi router. And of course, all of this is dwarfed by the intensity of signal you get a few centimeters away from a 1-W cell phone."...
There haven't been any 1w cell phones manufactured in the US for many years. 600mW and lower has been the standard for quite some time.
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Um, in the US, we're already paying for it. We have since the late 90's when congress passed huge tax breaks on to telcos to develop our 40Mbps connections - you have one of those don't you? The telco's promised us one years ago, I'm sure mine is just around the corner.
Oh, we're getting 40Mbps... it's just that 38Mbps of it is clogged with spam, pop-up seizure inducing ads, internet urban legends and MySpace's bandwidth hogging interface (again, all those ads). -g-
Oh, all the cell carriers are guilty of this. It would be wonderful to see them all slammed simultaneously with this. Let the landslide begin...
Agreed on the portable end of things. I've seen a barrage of outlandish explanations by people who think they know and end up making the situation worse.
Now if we could just make some progress on the concept of RF "radiation" not being the same as isotopic "radiation", we might get somewhere past the foil hats of the alarmists.
-g-
"A cell phone that is far from the nearest tower can transmit up to one watt. A typical home router transmits 100 mW (one tenth of a cell phone). A very powerful cell tower transmits 1000 W." ...
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Um, not anywhere on planet earth. Typical output power from the final amplifier stage of an 800MHz cell amplifier is nowhere above 25-30w at the very most. 1900MHz CDMA cells average between 4w and 15w max output at those frequencies. If you can provide data on any cell tower with final amplifier output in even the 100W range let-alone 1000W, I'd love to see it.
"However, signal intensity per surface unit decreases as the square of the distance. So if you are 100 meters (300 feet, one-half furlong for our US friends) from a 1-kW cell tower, you get the same exposure as if you are one metter (0.005 furlong, 3 ft) from a wifi router. And of course, all of this is dwarfed by the intensity of signal you get a few centimeters away from a 1-W cell phone."
There haven't been any 1w cell phones manufactured in the US for many years. 600mW and lower has been the standard for quite some time.