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20 June 2020 – Post update: the link to the article now gives a 404 Error – “page not found”. Was it retracted? The article “5G and its effects on human health” by Abbas Haider was published on the 18 June 2020 in Electronics 360. The author discusses: •What is 5G? •5G technology and millimeter-wave...Read More

Source: https://www.rcrwireless.com/20200617/5g/swiss-telecoms-association-calls-acceleration-5g-deployments?fbclid=IwAR3BJSVpuP01aD0gxg7rzbYb6RfYO5_0WdXrDe9HEb004RS_tsrFfoKUHzM By Juan Pedro Tomás on JUNE 17, 2020 Swiss Association of Telecommunications (Asut) has called on politicians and public authorities in Switzerland to accelerate the switch to 5G technology in the country. According to the association, the upgrade of the mobile networks with the latest 5G technology is making little progress due to a lack of...Read More

TRENTON – Assemblyman Jamel Holley (D-20thDist.) is calling for the creation of a state commission to study the many unknown health effects of the next generation of wireless technologies, which are steadily expanding throughout New Jersey. https://www.tapinto.net/sections/other-nj-news/articles/holley-calls-for-commission-to-study-5g-safety?fbclid=IwAR1hLHRqOCEhvz8UjqBntxAYxyaBn8hgAWyTS2DdTtXiPr2jt31F2LnTdhA Holley: “My constituents have expressed some deep concerns about the potential health impacts of these antennas, especially in high-density...Read More

What is the Kessler Syndrome? The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a theoretical scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further...Read More

Source: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/06/local-councils-want-government-to-answer-difficult-5g-questions/?fbclid=IwAR34jD8vJfqXhqTOo7lM_Moo81Ct5ejI5NOVbhE4Fdcta7lUBuG2MM2IBzU June 15, 2020 Dozens of local councils want the government to coordinate the information around the national rollout of 5G telecom, a survey conducted by public broadcaster NOS in the run-up to the first auction of the frequencies on June 29 has shown. Local councils play an important part in the rollout because...Read More

Source: Daily Maverick By Peter Fabricius • 15 June 2020 Senior American official says China is using Huawei to export its ‘surveillance state’. The US government has warned South Africa that it is risking the security of its most sensitive information and data by using the 5G telecoms infrastructure of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.  The...Read More

The role of the GSMA: •The GSMA represents the mobile industry to governments and institutions where it advocates policy and regulatory positions on behalf of its members. Its stated goals in this area is to ensure that mobile telecoms “policy and regulatory frameworks are fair, flexible and future-proof”; that radio spectrum is made available for...Read More

Source: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/355821-temporary-spectrum-what-vodacom-mtn-telkom-and-rain-are-doing.html?source=newsletter Staff Writer 12 June 2020 The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) licensed temporary spectrum to Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Rain, and Liquid Telecom in April. The temporary spectrum is aimed at easing network congestion and help mobile operators to maintain the quality of their broadband services and lower the cost of access to consumers....Read More

12 June 2020 Villagers in the Huancavelica region of Peru are detaining eight technicians who were repairing an antenna, over fears their work would spread Covid-19. The villagers mistakenly believed that the workers – who had come to fix a wireless antenna – were installing 5G technology in the area. Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53021239Read More