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Little is happening in Switzerland when the 5G network is expanded, even though the technology is there and the frequencies have been auctioned. But several hundred antenna searches across the country have been suspended. Some cantons have even imposed a 5G moratorium.
Some parts of the population fear exposure to radiation harmful to health and know that politics is behind them. Parliament has already refused to raise the limit values twice, which was requested by the telecommunications industry.
Radiation only when transmitting
The Minister of Communications, Simonetta Sommaruga (60), wanted to resolve the blockade with a new approach. The 5G network must be expanded with adaptive antennas while maintaining the limit values. Instead of normal antennas, adaptive antennas should be used. These only shine when users actually use 5G.
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Last August, the Federal Council commissioned the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) to carry out tests and then specify for the attention of the cantons and municipalities how the antenna radiation should be measured.
Law enforcement assistance is now available, as Bafu announced on Tuesday. The transmit power for each system is determined accordingly. Since adaptive antennas focus their radiation on the connected mobile phone, radiation exposure is on average lower than with conventional antennas, writes Bafu.
Sommaruga is confident
Will 5G technology, with which large amounts of data can be transported faster, will soon arrive in Switzerland? Sommaruga doesn’t want to promise too much. But: “I assume that the blockage on this issue can be resolved.”
Because now municipalities and cantons would have clarity on how to measure radiation with the new adaptive antennas and then issue the permits accordingly, Sommaruga told VIEW. He emphasized that the 5G network must expand. “But it is also important that we make sure that the population is protected from radiation. That is why we do not increase the limit values. “(Sf / SDA)
