Department of Telecommunications, Northeast License Service Area organized an awareness webinar on ‘Electromagnetic Radiations from Mobile Tower’. This session was organized to make the public aware of the growing need for mobile towers to make North Eastern States of India digitally advanced and to break myths regarding the health effects of EMF exposure from mobile towers.
Shri A. K. Jain, DDG gave an overview of the importance of mobile towers and the role well-entrenched telecommunications plays in providing seamless connectivity. The Sr. DDG DoT, Northeast LSA, Shillong Shri Ravi Goel averred the statistics of NE LSA. He further added that World Health Organization (WHO) has referred to approximately 25,000 articles published around the world over the past 30 years.
According to The Mobile Economy Report 2022 from the GSMA, 5G connections will surpass 1 billion in 2022 and 2 billion by 2025. By the end of 2027, 5G will represent around 39 percent of mobile subscriptions in India, with an estimated 500 million subscriptions. NE LSA has tested 2400 BTSs from April 2021 to March 2022 and all BTSs have been found compliant with DoT Norms on EMF radiation. All the information on mobile tower radiation is available to the public on DoT’s website and portal where any citizen can also request for testing of any mobile tower in their vicinity by paying a nominal fee.