Swiss Operators Urges Gov to Allow Network Sharing

date: August 27, 2001

Four Swiss mobile phone operators called on the government to allow network sharing of antennas to limit costs and at the same time safeguard people from electromagnetic radiation.

The Swiss environmental agency BUWAL set new rules on electrosmog emissions in March which, operators say, are 10 times as strict as guidelines by the World Health Organization.

Operators claimed network sharing would probably save 40% of installation cost.

Some epidemiological studies have reported a possible link between electrosmog exposure and cancer. Typical symptoms of electrosmog seem to be: Fatigue, Sore eyes, Headaches, Nausea, Miscarriages, Cancer. Heavy does can cause childhood leukaemia, Alzheimer, Chronic fatigue.

Andreas Wetter, head of Orange in Switzerland, said blocking site-sharing would lead to forests of antennas and costs would be so expensive in Switzerland that people would cease to use them.

Telefonica will find installation of 3G antennas would become almost impossible, which currently has no antennas at all in the country. Telefonica won a 3G license but is not a GSM license-holder in Switzerland.

Swisscom, TDC, Orange and Telefonica Movile say they are not fighting the radiation limits in principle but have drawn up their own proposals on measurement methods and procedures that would enable network sharing of antennas.

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