Probe will start into mobile phone masts

Probe will start into mobile phone masts

Friday, May 25, 2012 by 

Fiona Galea Debono

The controversial mobile phone base stations – and their health hazards – are back on the agenda. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

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A group of people concerned about radiation from mobile phone antennas has convinced a parliamentary committee to probe the matter and grill the authorities responsible for the devices.

The planning authority, the communications authority and the Health Ministry will soon be questioned about the health hazards of electromagnetic radiation by Parliament’s Social Affairs Committee.

This was decided at a meeting on Tuesday after the committee failed to take any action when people raised their concerns about the controversial base stations on rooftops two years ago.

The chairman of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority, Austin Walker had said in a letter to one of the concerned citizens in 2008 that the authority had been “given the green light by the director of public health, confirming these antennae did not generate any adverse affects”.

He added that the Malta Communications Authority was continuously monitoring the radiation in line with World Health Organisation guidelines.

But the committee and a lobby group against the antennas remain unconvinced and want to query such approval, in light of questions being raised by international experts. They can now question the authorities.

“It is a gross scandal that, in the absence of adequate testing, mobile telecommunication technology has been rolled out in an essentially unregulated way that results in the involuntary exposure of the majority of the population,” Daniel Massa said during his presentation to the committee.

He has taken a particular interest in the cause in the defence of electro-sensitive people, who have been suffering health problems as a result.

Armed with studies and quoting experts, Prof. Massa pointed to the link between cancer – in particular, leukaemia clusters in children – and electromagnetic fields.

However, apart from a possible carcinogen, the radiation from base stations could also cause a wide range of symptoms from headaches to lack of concentration, memory loss, depression and burning sensations.

Prof. Massa said exposure limits, according to the guidelines of the International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation Protection, remained almost 1,000 times higher than the safe threshold.

Meanwhile, no one seemed to know what was going on and 26 months after the issue was first raised at the committee meeting, everyone remained in the dark, he insisted.

Social Affairs Committee chairman Edwin Vassallo insisted on ensuring the related entities, including the main players, Go, Melita and Vodafone, shouldered their responsibilities.

He said he was ready to take the cause into a wider forum, including environmental NGOs and local councils if necessary and throw his weight behind it if there were the slightest doubt that the base stations were a health hazard.

“If we are not sure, then we should at least attempt to minimise the extent of the damage,” said University lecturer Peter Xuereb, who also made his case against the antennae.

In Lija, these were positioned within 10 metres from children’s bedrooms, he said.

Peter Borg, an accountant, related the trauma of his daughter’s leukaemia, saying another ttwo children in Marsascala, which was “surrounded by base stations”, had been diagnosed and expressing his shock when he found one on a building facing the back of the school where several classes and playgrounds are.

In San Ġwann, there were seven antennae on one building and these were even being hidden in tanks not to raise concern, others maintained.

An electro-sensitive woman asked how long those in her “cruel” predicament would have to wait until something was done about it.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120525/local/Probe-will-start-into-mobile-phone-masts.421230

Exposed: World Health Organization beholden to nuclear interests

Exposed: World Health Organization beholden to nuclear interests — 

“Like having Dracula guard the blood bank” (VIDEOS)

The World Health Organization is in the news today as it ‘weighs in’ on Fukushima.

Here’s some background on the WHO and affiliated organizations:

Former head of WHO admits they answer to IAEA (VIDEO)

• 2:30 – Agreement between IAEA and WHO – WHO cannot research health effects of radiation or effects of nuclear accidents if IAEA does not agree
• 7:00 – Former head of WHO admits they answer to IAEA
• 14:00 – Chernobyl had no effect -UN
• 15:45 – Scientist refutes UN
• 27:30 – 200km from Chernobyl, 10,000 becquerels measured inside child
• 30:20 – According to Professor Yury Bandazhevsky (former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel), Over 50 Bq/kg of body weight lead to irreversible lesions in vital organs
• 30:50 – *MUST SEE* Refutes internal radiation! -Norman Gentner, Secretary of UN UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation), ~2001 (See Gentner speak at 13:55 — No increase in leukemia, even among liquidators)
• 34:15 – *MUST SEE* Internal or external it makes no difference

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World Health Organization "beholden" to IAEA since 1959 -- Can't release a report without their agreement -- "Like having Dracula guard the blood bank" (VIDEO)

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IAEA Exposed on Japan TV

Three years ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s research mission visited the contaminated areas. Dr. Shigematsu [Japanese], chairman of the mission, announced “there are no health damages among the residents.” [...]

Mr. Hirokawa, after looking at your video, I wonder what it was that IAEA announced there were no health damages among the residents. [...]

The local people believed a fair research would be done, because IAEA is an agency of the United Nations and a medical scientist from Hiroshima would lead the research. So, they were astounded that the mission had announced the areas were safe.

But, didn’t the mission actually see the situation there?

Well, according to the local doctors, the mission members didn’t enter the heavily-contaminated areas.

Besides, they brought their food, sourced from far away, and didn’t eat anything local.

Still, they declared it’s safe. No wonder the local people are infuriated.

If the mission found local food too dangerous to eat, they should have said it’s dangerous.

The very credibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency is seriously challenged, isn’t it?

Yes. I hear that when the nuclear industry of the former USSR started to do business with the nuclear industry of the US, they probably agreed that downplaying the damages by the accident would be beneficial for both sides.

More on the IAEA: Bloomberg exposes IAEA: Safety division is a "marketing channel" for nuclear technology, reveals secret US docs

http://enenews.com/exposed-world-health-organization-beholden-nuclear-interests-videos

'Smart Meters' Generating Static as More Counties Seek to Opt Out

'Smart Meters' Generating Static as More Counties Seek to Opt Out

By: KENRIC WARD | Posted: May 25, 2012 3:55 AM

Florida Power & Light has installed 3.3 million "smart" electric meters, with another 1 million to go.

Critics say the $800 million program is a dumb waste of money, or worse.

Three counties -- Brevard, Charlotte and Indian River -- have formally requested that the state Public Service Commission allow them to opt out of the program. Volusia County has requested that the PSC enable residents only to opt into the changeover.

On Monday, the Flagler County Commission voted to draft a letter asking that the PSC permit its residents to opt out as well.

The mini-rebellion against the new digital, radio-frequency technology is well under way in California, which adopted smart meters three years ago. Eleven counties and 60 cities in the Golden State now want their meters pulled out.

FPL officials say it's a lot of static about nothing.

"There's much more accuracy with the smart meters," says FPL spokeswoman Elaine Hinsdale. She said the meters, which are manufactured by General Electric in Bradenton are run through a rigorous battery of tests before installation.

Of all the meters installed thus far, Hinsdale said, "One-tenth of 1 percent of customers have expressed concern."

In those cases, she said FPL "will temporarily postpone installation" until all units are in place. "Then we will re-evaluate and see if there are any outstanding issues."

Since Florida cities and counties have no authority over the program, all disputes are in the PSC's court. The commission said it is "formalizing a process" to evaluate smart-meter issues.

"The process would then allow for full stakeholder participation," Hinsdale assured.

Meantime, smart-meter skeptics are charging ahead with reams of scientific data that purport to show dangers and deficiencies in the devices.

In addition to 8,000 Californians filing health complaints, the World Health Organization in May 2011 rated the radiation coming from smart meters on the "Class 2-B Carcinogen" list, along with leaded gasoline, DDT, exhaust, chlordane and chloroform.

Other groups have claimed that radio-frequency emanating from smart meters interferes with wireless equipment such as wi-fi and causes malfunctioning of medical equipment, such as pacemakers, wireless insulin pumps, ventilators and even baby monitors.

Hinsdale responds that the FPL meters pose no threat to human health or technology.

"I have an inch-think binder of accredited studies. In comparison with cell phones, [the radio-frequency power of smart meters] is hundreds of times weaker," she says.

Hinsdale said that residential smart meters are "dormant 99 percent of time, sending micosecond pulses throughout the day."

Among the advantages, she says, is customers' ability to log onto the FPL website and track household electric usage hour by hour, day by day.

Still, skeptics worry that the smart meters will enable the utility -- or even terrorists -- to shut down power at the flip of a central switch.

"They will be able to control the demand," says Peg Black, a Volusia County activist.

But Hinsdale assures FPL customers -- who currently enjoy the lowest electric rates of the state's 55 utilities -- that the  "most stringent measures" are used to safeguard security and data.

Though the conversation program is costing FPL $800 million, $200 million was underwritten by federal stimulus funds, leaving $600 million to be spread across FPL's 35-county service area.

Opponents are hoping that if more counties demand to opt out from the changeover, the PSC will do what some European countries and scientists have urged -- take another look at the wisdom of smart meters.



Contact Kenric Ward at kward@sunshinestatenews.com or at             (772) 801-5341      .

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Tags: accuracy, Brevard, Business, California, Charlotte, Elaine Hinsdale, European Union, Flagler,Florida Power & Light, health, Indian River, News, radio frequency, smart meters, Volusia

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/smart-meters-generating-static-more-counties-seek-opt-out

“Analog” Opt Out Meters Emitting Radiation

“Analog” Opt Out Meters Emitting Radiation

Posted on May 25, 2012 by onthelevelblog

It seems that utility companies just can’t quit their microwave addiction. Unconfirmed, breaking news from San Diego indicates that ‘analog’ meters being offered to customers for sizeable fees as an ‘opt out’ are in fact still emitting microwave radiation. Sue Brinchman, the Director of the Center for Electrosmog Prevention- who has suffered from health effects from the smart meter on her wall, and was relieved when SDG&E was ordered to offer an ‘opt out’ to its customers- posted the video above and reports that her new “analog” meter is still emitting pulses of radiation.

We are receiving other similar reports from around the country.  Residents must exercise due diligence.  We repeat- DO NOT TRUST anything the utilities tell you regarding the safety or emissions of ANY new meters they wish to install on your home or business.  The only way to verify that a meter is safe is to purchase an EMF analyzer yourself or to hire an independent expert.  Even meters that appear to be safe may be hiding a transmitter that can make you sick.  Sadly, any trust that the public had for the utility industry has been completely betrayed by the lies and the fabrications that have been used to sell the smart grid.  Any analog meter accepted from the utility should be subjected to independent testing and analysis, and deconstruction.  The burden to prove that any meter is safe should fall on the reckless utility industry itself rather than ratepayers.

We also have heard that RF is “leaking” onto household wiring and analog meters from adjacent smart meters and data collector unit antennas.  A resident of Monterey CA writes:

I seem to remember taking readings with my RF Field Strength meter of both my electric and natural gas meters before Smart Meter deployment, and not getting anything.

This week, I went out and measured both meters. The electric meter  is registering between .047 to .067 microW/cm2 against the glass, depending on how I orient the gauge.
However, the gas meter at the face is registering from approx. .719 to 1 microW/cm2. The various pipes read some high, and some lower — none as high as next to the part with the little wheels.
This is very strange and alarming. I’ve checked both meters, and don’t immediately see anything new or added, especially to the gas meter. I’m wondering if this is RF coming in on the gas lines, which I understand are made of black iron.
If you have RF gauges and have natural gas meters, would you please check them and see if you also get RF readings?”

Please write in and let us know if you measure any emissions from a meter that appears to be analog on the outside.

We were heartened to hear that the City of Ashland Oregon has approved a no-fee opt out, but unfortunately it appears that their “opt out” is a radio off digital meter- the kind with aswitching mode power supply that has been associated with adverse health consequences.  This is being referred to as a “scam meter.”

In California, Burbank, Glendale and Sacramento Municipal Utility District approved this kind of “option.”  Las Virgenes Municipal Water District in Southern California is also now seeking to get approval for this kind of opt out.  We believe Naperville, IL as well.

DANGER ALERT: More utilities and local governments may start approving or trying to approve this kind of BAD option!  Be aware that they are trying to scam unaware customers.  Meters that use BPL (broadband over power line) that utilities claim are “safer, wired versions” should also NOT be considered safe.  When it comes to your utility, caveat emptor (buyer beware).  Their word is no longer good.

Here is the letter Sue Brinchman wrote to her utility, exasperated at having paid her opt out fee and still being exposed.

Dear SDG&E,

I have received an Elster analog meter that is consistently showing RF emissions of from 0.048 up to 0.200 microwatts per cm2, measured by my TenMars Rf Field Meter (TM-195). This analog replaced the SDG&E smart meter just a little over a week ago. The purpose of using analogs is to avoid RF radiation – and the one I have been given has excessive RF. I note that in the Elster manual for this particular model it is possible to add a radio inside in the field. I am not sure (yet) of the source of the RF emitting from the analog, but I do know that I measured several others (both Elsters) and these did NOT emit the RF radiation like mine.
Therefore I request an ABB meter or GE, out of the box, no special “parts” ordered for mine, as I had been told on the phone was being done. I would like to see the Elster meter disassembled here to check it also for the source of the RF and for SDG&E to come out and test.
The gas “analog” meter also emits RF at the level of 0.035 microwatts per cm2. So does another identical model analog gas meter that another La Mesan has received. This is wrong, as RF is what we want to avoid. That same person’s electric meter, an Elster, measured 0.001 microwatts per cm2, two hundred times less than the one on my home. I still cannot use my bedroom, and this has gone on now for 1.5 years.
I want an analog that does not emit RF for electric AND gas, and the electric analog meter MUST be changed out promptly to the ABB or GE analogs, older models, that I understand people are also receiving. I am CCing Brad McLellan of Channel 10 News, Miriam Raftery of East County Magazine, Ken Stone, Regional Director of the Patch, and will be contacting Michael Turko as well as other media, and my attorney, Martin Homec. I am also Ccing the Administrative Law Judge, Amy Yip-Kikugawa. I understand that the electric meter may be a “hybrid” and I don’t want it.
I realize that I am a Party to the Opt-out Proceeding and have been informing the public about the dangers of smart meters and that SDG&E may not be pleased with that. BUT I do want to be treated equally well and receive a comparable analog meter with no RF’s. A true analog does not have this. I am very sensitive to RF radiation now that the smart meter exposure has occurred and I expect nothing but an analog without it for both gas and electric.
Lastly, I have been told (and had it confirmed by numerous people at SDG&E answering the phones) that I am only allowed to speak with the SDG&E director of the opt-out program, Tessa Howard, no one else is allowed to speak to me at SDG&E This was read from the computer screen. I object to that sort of discriminatory treatment. I wish to be treated according to the law and like any other customer. I am a senior, and a disabled person with multiple medical conditions, in addition, and cannot have my health nor rights continued to be stomped on.
I expect that this situation will be swiftly rectified. I would like to be called immediately to be informed about what actions SDG&E can do to replace these RF-emitting analog meters.
Sincerely,
Susan Brinchman

For whatever reason, utilities feel it is essential to expose as many people as possible to pulsed microwave radiation in their homes- if necessary by deception, subterfuge and trickery- even if someone is paying a hefty fee for the ‘privilege’ of opting out.

Screw this!  It’s time to rise up.

http://stopsmartmeters.org/2012/05/25/analog-opt-out-meters-emitting-rf/

Smart Grid Initiative Makes Us All Unwitting Guinea Pigs

Smart Grid Initiative Makes Us All Unwitting Guinea Pigs

By William Boardman on 05/26/2012 in Activism, Energy and Water, Policy Reform, Vermont with 0 Comments

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If your state was installing a new technology that would impact virtually everyone, you might assume your state was acting based on the most complete and current science available to protect everyone’s health.

If your state was Vermont and it was intent on installing wireless smart grid technology in every home and business, you’d need to know that your state is acting based on very limited science, most of it more than 25 years out of date, with little concern for anyone’s health.

Making this a matter of growing public concern is the state-sanctioned installation of smart meters that expose people to radiation that has unknown consequences, but is suspected of causing a variety of physical ailments, from sleep disturbance and headaches to brain damage and cancer.

The United States allows greater exposure of its citizens to the hazards of wireless technology than any other country in the world and the U.S. Congress passed a law in 1996 that prohibits state or local governments from regulating wireless technology on the basis of health effects, Janet Newton of Marshfield VT explained at a public forum on April 25.

For more than 20 years, Ms Newton, has tried to persuade Congress and assorted federal agencies to expand and refine the health science of wireless technology, especially as it related to electromagnetic radiation (EMR).  To further her work, Ms Newton founded the EMR Policy Institute, a scientific non-profit corporation dedicated to advancing sound public health polity.  The Institute has engaged with state and federal agencies and legislatures, joined lawsuits, and held public forums, all with essentially the same message: you should know what you’re doing before you do it.

Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a natural phenomenon that includes light. EMR can be ionizing (such as X-rays, gamma rays, nuclear power, or nuclear weapons), and as such is a known cancer-causing agent. EMR can also be non-ionizing (such as cell phones, relay towers, power lines, chargers, or wireless electric meters), and as such is designated by the World Health Organization as a suspected cancer-causing agent.

The most recent research on the health effects of EMR dates from 1986 and serves as the basis for the Federal Communications Commission to regulate wireless technology. But this research deals with only one of EMR’s impacts, the thermal effect – overheating human cells and body, which is what your microwave does to food.  And even that thermal research is limited, based only on a six-foot, 200-pound mature man, not smaller or older people, and not children or infants. What is the effect on them, short term or long term? The FCC doesn’t know, nobody knows.

A decade or so ago, when Ms Newton petitioned the FCC to expand and update the scientific basis for its regulations, the FCC responded that it was not a health agency and had no authority to improve its scientific data. When Ms Newton petitioned health agencies to intervene, they responded that it wasn’t their jurisdiction and only the FCC could set the health standards. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the court declined to consider it.

To bureaucrats, this sort of dead end is called a “regulatory void,” while others might call it a Catch-22. Either way, there’s no one to be held accountable, or the experiment with EMR on virtually the whole human population goes forward with little consideration of health effects.

Whatever one calls this uncertainty, there’s little inclination in government to resolve it, or even to develop reliable, current science.  The 1986 science came from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when it had a world class research program with 36 fulltime researchers.  As funding was cut starting in the late 1980s, this program was eventually reduced to a single researcher, working part time.

Citing study after study from such entities as the California Public Utilities Commission, the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, and the National Academies of Science, Ms Newton found them reaching the same conclusion again and again – that the scientific study of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is entirely inadequate to assure even the likelihood of public safety in the proliferating environment of wireless technology.

Not only is there a better technology, Ms Newton argued, it’s even being pursued on a small scale in Vermont. That solution is fiber optic cable already in use by the Vermont Electric Co-op and planned as a statewide network by a partnership of IBM and the Vermont Electric Company. Fiber optic’s advantages include a much higher capacity, lower energy use, lower maintenance demands, much greater public benefit, and, arguably, an overall cost effectiveness.

But the federal government is driving the installation of wireless smart meters across the country, with billions of dollars in the stimulus act, from which Vermont is to receive $69 million. Although the EMR institute has briefed the staff of Vermont’s Senators and Congressman on the advantages of fiber optic and the uncertainties of wireless technology, these representatives have taken credit for the federal money without taking any initiative on the questions of public good.

One person at the forum on wireless electric meters on every house: “No one knows about it, and I’m just suspicious.”

The man next to him replied: “I live off the grid, so I don’t really have to make a decision.”

For most of the rest of us, unless one chooses to pay to not to have a wireless meter, someone else has already made the decision, based on outdated and incomplete information that may or may not be hazardous to your health.

Tags: California Public Utilities Commission, cancer, federal communications commission,radiation, smart grid, world health organization

http://ivn.us/2012/05/26/smart-grid-initiative-makes-us-all-unwitting-guinea-pigs/

Entra en vigencia ley que regula instalación de torres para antenas celulares

Entra en vigencia ley que regula instalación de torres para antenas celulares

junio 11, 2012 Actualidad , Gobierno , Tecnología  Imprimir

Con la entrada en vigencia de la Ley de Torres, que regula con mayores exigencias urbanísticas y de participación ciudadana la instalación de estas estructuras, desde esta semana empezará a regir en el país un nuevo régimen legal para ordenar y racionalizar el despliegue y uso de infraestructura soporte de antenas celulares en las ciudades.

Tras una década de debate, este año fue aprobada por amplia mayoría la nueva Ley en el Congreso Nacional y tras la aprobación del Tribunal Constitucional, fue promulgada por el Presidente Sebastián Piñera.

Los ministros de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones, Pedro Pablo Errázuriz, y de Vivienda y Urbanismo, Rodrigo Pérez, destacaron que la normativa reduce el impacto urbanístico de estas infraestructuras, abre espacios de participación ciudadana a nivel local de forma previa a la entrega de los permisos municipales, y cautela de forma preventiva la salud de las personas fijando un límite para las emisiones radioeléctricas que ubica a Chile entre los cinco países más estrictos de la OCDE.

El ministro Pérez resaltó que esta Ley “entrega por fin facultades reales a los Municipios para intervenir en los procesos de instalación de torres en su territorio comunal, porque estas obras requerirán permiso previo de las Direcciones de Obras de cada comuna. Además de los estudios técnicos y una serie de obligaciones urbanísticas que deberán cumplir e informar las empresas a los municipios y vecinos, se abre un inédito espacio de participación ciudadana para que los propietarios de inmuebles cercanos tengan un rol clave a la hora de definir qué medidas de mitigación o compensación acompañarán cada proyecto de instalación de torres”.

Por su parte, el ministro Errázuriz indicó que “además de proteger el paisaje urbano y la plusvalía de los barrios, la nueva ley se hace cargo de lo más importante: la salud de las personas de forma precautoria como recomienda la Organización Mundial de la Salud, fijando límites estrictos a las potencias de las antenas. Chile está marcando pauta en este sentido y nos hemos puesto entre los países más exigentes del mundo en este sentido. De esta forma, se armoniza el respeto al entorno urbano y calidad de vida de los vecinos, con el indispensable despliegue de infraestructura para servicios de telecomunicaciones que demandan los usuarios y que necesita el país”.

Entre los aspectos más relevantes de la nueva ley están los incentivos y opciones que entrega a las empresas para usar soportes de menor altura, menos invasivos, con diseños acordes al paisaje urbano o para usar infraestructura de terceros ya existentes en las ciudades, evitando los bosques de antenas.

En esta línea, el subsecretario de Telecomunicaciones, Jorge Atton, resaltó que la nueva ley apunta hacia un nuevo modelo en las telecomunicaciones, el de la compartición de infraestructura, que responde a una lógica de racionalidad económica. “Con la evolución tecnológica que ya existe y se está usando en los países avanzados de la OCDE, Chile puede tener los niveles de cobertura y calidad de servicio que necesita el país para su desarrollo, compartiendo la infraestructura, gastando menos recursos en fierro y cemento, bajando los costos e invirtiendo más en conectividad avanzada de forma más distribuida en las ciudades, que es lo que se necesita hoy para responder a los usuarios. Las torres grandes son del pasado. Esta tendencia se está expandiendo entre los principales operadores mundiales y en Chile anticipamos este cambio tecnológico en la nueva Ley”, afirmó.

En este nuevo escenario, la autorización para iniciar las obras de instalación de una torre soporte de antenas -de más de tres metros de altura- en un sector urbano de la comuna, es responsabilidad de la municipalidad respectiva a través de su Dirección de Obras Municipales, la cual estará encargada de recibir las obras finalizadas y verificar que las estructuras físicas cumplen con el proyecto autorizado y las normas establecidas en la Ordenanza General de Urbanismo y Construcciones.

Adicionalmente, la Ley entrega plazos a las empresas para ajustar sus antiguas torres ubicadas en territorios saturados y zonas sensibles a la nueva normativa, proceso que debe ser informado a cada Municipio y será fiscalizado por las Direcciones de Obras de cada comuna.

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Becomes effective law regulating installation of cellular antenna towers

1. June 11, 2012 News , Government , Technology  Print

With the entry into force of the Torres Act, which regulates more demanding urban citizen participation and installation of these structures, starting this week will be in force in the country a new legal regime to manage and streamline the deployment and use of infrastructure support cell towers in the cities.

After a decade of debate, this year was approved by a large majority the new law in Congress and after approval of the Constitutional Court was signed by President Sebastián Piñera.

Ministers of Transport and Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, and Housing and Urban Development, Rodrigo Perez, stressed that the legislation reduces the urban impact of this infrastructure, open spaces for citizen participation at local level prior to the delivery of municipal permits , a preventive and precautionary health of people setting a limit to the radio emissions that places Chile among the five most stringent in the OECD.

Minister Perez stressed that the Act "finally delivers real powers to municipalities to intervene in the process of installation of towers in their communal territory, because these works require permission of the Works Directorates of each commune. In addition to technical studies and a series of urban planning obligations to be met and inform businesses and neighboring municipalities, opens an unprecedented space for citizen participation to nearby property owners have a key role in defining what measures mitigation or compensation will accompany each project to install towers. "

For his part, Minister Errazuriz said that "in addition to protecting the urban landscape and the goodwill of the neighborhoods, the new law takes care of the most important: the health of people in a precautionary manner as recommended by the World Health Organization , setting strict limits on the powers of the antennas. Chile is setting standards in this regard and we have placed among the most stringent in the world in this regard. In this way, harmonized respect to the urban environment and quality of life for residents, with the necessary infrastructure for deployment of telecommunications services that users demand and the country needs. "

Among the most important aspects of the new law are the incentives and delivery options for companies to use brackets lower height, less invasive, with consistent streetscape designs or to use existing third party infrastructure in cities, preventing forest antennas.

In this vein, the Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Jorge Atton, stressed that the new law aims at a new model in telecommunications, the infrastructure sharing, which corresponds to a logic of economic rationality."With the technological evolution that already exists and is being used in advanced OECD countries, Chile may have coverage levels and service quality that the country needs for its development, infrastructure sharing, spending fewer resources in iron and cement , lowering costs and increasing investment in more advanced connectivity distributed in cities, which is what is needed today to respond to users. The large towers are past.This trend is spreading among the main global operators in Chile and we anticipate this change in technology in the new law, "he said.

In this new scenario, the authorization to begin work to install an antenna support tower, more than three meters high in an urban commune is the responsibility of the respective municipality through its Directorate of Municipal Works , which is responsible for receiving the completed work and verify that the physical structures meet the approved project and the standards established in the General Urban Development and Construction.

Additionally, the Act limits delivery companies to adjust their ancient towers located in areas saturated and sensitive areas to the new rules, a process that should be reported to each municipality and shall be overseen by the Departments of Works for each commune.

http://www.diariopyme.com/2012/06/entra-en-vigencia-ley-que-regula-instalacion-de-torres-para-antenas-celulares/