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The Israeli cell phone carrier and provider Partner (formally ORANGE) now offer home use LTE routers that will connect to the internet net via LTE cellular technology, and will connect to home PC, Laptops , tablets and smart phones via WIFI.
The new router is a land mark as it the first time in which cellular carrier and provider offer home use LTE service. This will soon be followed by other carrier and will cause the increase of their costumers' exposure to RF radiation and will push the need for more cell towers.
This is the first time I have a chance to compeer between the RF EMF Radiation emitted while in 4G Data and 3G data modes.
In this video I show the RF radiation emitted from an iPhone 5 in 2 modes: 4G Data and 3G Data, both with the same supplier. The measurment was taken in home conditions and when the 4G Data network is only been operational for few weeks (we expect many RF emitting 4G antenna to be install and that our exposure will go up because of that).
In this measurement it is clear that when in 4G mode the phone emits higher levels or RF EMF.
This week the ministry of communication allowed the cellphone companies to use a narrow bend of frequencies they already own in order to lunch and operate 4G preliminary network.
Companies that have no spear band will be allocated with a 5M band.
The use of these frequencies will be allowed until the companies will buy new frequency bands for their 4G network. Orange, which already deployed a partial 4G network, turned its' network ON and is now allowing it's costumers to use it. The full deployment is expected after the biding procedure for the frequencies will end.
In Herzeliya, the city I live in, Orange deployed an experimental 4G network in the last few month. Every time I went to the downtown I felt pain around my neck and Thyroid glance.
From what I read, In countries that already deployed 4G, EHS people are suffering more than before.
Multi frequency - a state in which a RF signal is compose of several RF small signal, or a case in which in the AIR there are several RF signals.
Multi sources - a state in which in a surrounding there are several RF emitting devices which each and every one of them transmit different, or same, one, or many RF signals. Please note -theproblem shown in this clip is not unique to the CORNET meters. Most meters have the some issue. The only way to measure RF radiation correctly is using a spectrum analyzer (a good, fast one cost a lot!), finding every signal and analyzing it one by one. The CORNET meters are great for their price. I made this video so activist and people will know that when they measure RF with the CORNET or other DETECTORS, or when a government official or a professional tester measure RF with his meter, it is never the full picture.
In the real world, in most cases when we measure RF radiation, we have more than one RF signal that is originated from more then one source. Sources like mobile phone antennas, WIFI router or a 3G mobile phone emits multi frequency signals. Measuring the radiation from these sources with a simple RF meter (professional or home use) which is not a spectrum analyzer will show only part of the picture. Simple meters can also detect the radiation emitted from the sources, show when it is ON of OFF, and show if there is more or less radiation in one point of time or between different locations.
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It is not that I think we should not use simple RF meters. on the contrary, simple RF meters is the only effortable way we can see the radiation before it makes us sick. But when official bodies try to show how low the RF radiation is by using an RF detector (simple meter that show only accumulated calculated number) against a WIFI router or a cell phone antenna, this is wrong.
The way to analyze the RF radiation before assessing it's health risks, from most of today sources, is to use a fast spectrum analyzer and count the number of signals, their frequency (different frequency does different damage to different people), their MAX, MIN, AVARAGE amplitude (over long time, not just 6 minutes) and the type of signal (Digital, analog, GSM, UMTS, Spectrum speed, frequency hoping and more).
In most countries today the official bodies that are responsible on the regulation of RF radiation, not only use the high non protective ICNIRP guide lines, but also uses simple RF meters.
In every country in the world when analyzing RF radiation from the electronic perspective, they use very fast spectrum analyzer and even very low RF single are considered as a disturbance that needs to be shielded.
Why electronic equipment is treated better than real people?
Video experiments
In the following video, I use the excellent CORNET ED85 RF meter to measure RF radiation from 2 identical DECT cordless phones. The phones transmit in different channels, which means different frequency (very close to one another). After it is power up the DECT phone scan the 2.4 frequency span that is used by DECT standard and select an unoccupied channel. The ED85 show this when soon after the second DECT phone is powered up the levels goes up from ~60 to ~90 for a brief second (when both phone transmits in the same channel for a second) and then goes down again to ~60 mW/m2.
If I would have a spectrum analyzer, we would have seen that there are 2 different signals right next to each other. The human body is effected by both, while the meter shows the same level as if only one was present.
WIFI radiation
In the next video (Hebrew audio with English Subtitles) I show the same thing, this time with several laptops and a WIFI router. In this video I use both CORNET ED75 RF meter and the CORNET ED15 a simple WIFI analyzer. When all the RF sources are transmitting you can see on the ED15 that all the WIFI span is busy, while the levels on the RF meter remains very low.
2 weeks ago the ministries of communication, health and environment protection publish their views about the deployment of 4G cellular network in ISRAEL. Their documents where published on the Israeli government sharing website and are open for public feedback. Feedback should be sent to schubertn@moc.gov.il by end of working day, 15/06/2012. The docs are in hebrew and are located at: http://www.health.gov.il/services/importandbusinesslicensing/pages/4generation.aspx
In a nut shell, the ministry of communication praise the deployment of 4G as the saver of men kind and as a corner stone in Israel economy and education. The ministry of environment protection say that wireless traffic will increase 300 times, but radiaion levels will be kept "noral", "under the standard" and in so called "safe levels" since every house, building and office will install a 20mW femtocell ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell ) and the avarage environmental exposure level will be "only" 5uW/cm2 (The estimations of the ministry of environment protection are based on what I think are very optimistic assumptions) . The health ministry say that the estimations of the ministry of environment protection are based on very optimistic assumptions. The health ministry say they can't estimate the number of deaths or the health effect of a 4G network over the Israeli population (and by that give up their responsibility on the meter). In his review, the health ministry does not acknowledge any biological effect of RF radiation nor does it acknowledge EHS.
The bottom line is that 4G is going to be deployed with tacking into considuration the "percutionary principle" which is an empty slogan that is used in order to create a show that things are done very carefully while considering all costs and risk, when it is not.
We (a group of activist and EHS survivors/warriors) started to send feedback about the docs.
If you want to take part just send your comments to schubertn@moc.gov.il , even in English.
People from around the world asked me in the past few days if 4G was banded in Israel.
No, it was not officially banded .
As far as I know there is an ongoing litigation about advanced cellphone use (when the low suit was issued, by the forum for sane cellphone use, it was about 3G video, Internet and data, but now it seems to be about 4G) in the Supreme Court ( http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3105745,00.html ) .
In addition the ministry of environmental protection and the ministry of health are calling for a public debate before further deployment of 4G, LTE and WIMAX technologies ( Hebrew post, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1912699)
So for the time being, there is no commercial 4G network in Israel, yet.
The government in Israel is acting in two opposite directions regarding the wireless issue. From one side warning about the use of cell phone and other wireless devices where issued by the ministry of health and the ministry of environment protection, and on the other hand it seems that wireless technologies are being deployed and pushed to the public with the approval of the government, sometimes by the government and municipal governments .
For example, this is the case with WIFI in schools, where a comity (with representatives from ministry of health, the ministry of environment protection and the ministry of education) issued a report that 'call" for wired Internet in schools, and according to its' report mobile phone use was limited in schools ( (Hebrew posts, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2125366). But this report does not band WIFI, and It says that the IARC resolution is not "strong" and that it is not widely excepted. They go ahead saying that we need to act according to the "precautionary principle" without saying what it is. After this report was issues a different division of the ministry of education started the deployment and installation of WIFI networks in schools around the country (Hebrew posts, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2286852 , http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2203335 ) .
Another example of this is the warning that were issues a while ago on cellphone and wireless devices use, both by the ministry of Health and of environmental protection (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/cordless-phones-emit-as-much-radiation-as-cell-phones-1.303349 ). Later on that year, the ministry of Communication pushed for 2 additional 3G cellphone networks (Hebrew post, please use translator - ) and for WIFI in cities around Israel ( Hebrew post, please use translator -http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2225950 ) . In addition to that wireless water smart meters are being deployed in Israel as we speak, again very quietly… sh…sh…sh…the public is sleeping!
Some people here say that what the ministry of environment and health are doing is deliberately in order to show to the public that they are doing all they can about this issue, while still allowing the wide spread of wireless technologies.
On the Knesset front (the Israeli parliament) there are several MK that are trying contently working to create new lows regarding public awareness of the danger from wireless technologies and protection of the public from the non heat related health effect. Leading this group are MK Yulia Shamalov Berkovich and Dov Khenin who purposed a new low that will require health warning labels to be put on cellphones (http://norad4u.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-bill-that-will-require-health.html) . On the other hand MK Meir Shitrit is pushing for a low that require the installation of WIFI router in all public building (Hebrew post, please use translator - http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=2289156&r=1 ).
I think the government is very confused. I think most of them never measured the RF levels from a wireless router, several laptops working in the same room, smart meters, cellphone antenna, cell phones, and any other RF or ELF sources. I think that none of them is an EHS, none of them suffered from RF or ELF EMR. I think that they know only a small part of the science proof for the damage caused by RF and ELF EMR, and even if they do know it, their interpretation is wrong. I think they are all very limited in their views, knowledge and actions.
But on the other hand I am very naïve; maybe all of this is just a very big spin!
Pelephone (one of the 3 main Israeli cellphone companies) has updated the public today on the lunch of it's 4'th generation cellphone network. At first it will sell 4G wirless/cell modems to costumers. This move will mean more antennas and an increase of the public personal exposure to RF radiation.
Link (with google translate): http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.themarker.com%2Ftmit%2Farticle%2F17882
