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Mill Valley joins effort to constrain 5G proliferation
The city of Mill Valley has enacted an urgency ordinance to regulate "small cell" towers amid concerns that cellphone companies want to grow their 5G networks and install new equipment in Marin. "We do intend to do more work and studies to craft a permanent ordinance within the next year," Mill Valley Mayor Stephanie Moulton-Peters said Friday. "The urgency ordinance has standards to limit and prohibit the installations of devices in residential neighborhoods, but there is more that we can do."
The decision came on a unanimous vote by the City Council on Thursday, after residents from across Marin packed the council chambers as part of a campaign urging local officials to block cellphone companies from attempting to build 5G towers in the county. No proposals for 5G towers have been submitted to Mill Valley, staff said.
The issue is that 5G towers, which would allow for faster and higher-capacity video streaming and other transmissions, could exacerbate health symptoms already suspected as a result of exposure to electromagnetic fields, according to the EMF Safety Network, a group advocating to keep communities EMF-free. Those symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, sleep problems, anxiety, heart problems, learning and memory disorders, ringing in the ears and increased cancer risk, according to the EMF Safety Network website.
"What 5G does is it adds another cloud to what we refer to as 'electromagnetic smog' into an environment that is already pretty saturated," said Fairfax resident and activist Valeri Hood. "In Fairfax, what we're doing is asking our council to step up in the way councils have in the past, and just say no to 5G."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:07AM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:58PM (2 children)
It does existing things faster. But often that also means more capacity.
I don't need 10 GB ethernet to my computer. So why does it exist? For the same reason that six lane highways exist in some places. Or the 404 (and I don't mean page not found).
I hear that 5G has poor in building penetration.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:44AM
https://www.cio.com/article/3226451/networking/5g-a-few-frequency-facts.html [cio.com]
Yes, but improvements in other parts of the spectrum could help. And if you are close to a 5G base station, you can get the promised crazy speeds.
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(Score: 1) by exaeta on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:07PM
Yes. In general, higher frequency means more bandwidth but lower material penetration*. It's why you can transmit data to/from underground on the lower frequency bands, but you'd be lucky to get a few KiB/s doing so.
* (This is technically not true of very very high frequencies, e.g. gamma rays penetrate better than visible light, but I'm going to assume you're still in the radio bands given that transmitting data via gamma radiation or X-rays might pose issues for the general wellbeing of the population. Basically, the closer EM-radiation frequency becomes to visible light, the poorer the penetration will become.)
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