Why stopping the building of masts is an own goal

Any tightening of the limits, usually part and parcel of the demand to decouple indoor and outdoor coverage, also results in a similar effect. After all, there are simply no devices that have been designed for this unique, Swiss way of doing things. All parts of the mobile telecommunications system are designed according to international standards. If the limits were now to be reduced even further so that signals are no longer able to reach inside buildings, this would, in turn, increase the radiation from one’s own mobile, which has to compensate for the poor reception with a significantly higher transmission signal. Or – to return to the example of the two people talking – the quieter it is outside, the louder it becomes inside.

Even the adaptive antennas that are often criticised by opponents are unjustly pilloried within these groups. These, too, reduce radiation exposure because they are able to target the signal more directly towards the devices. Or, in other words, they don’t ‘shout’ at an entire sector in order to be heard by a single mobile phone, but instead speak precisely to the place where the active device is located. The is because an adaptive antenna first registers the direction in which a mobile phone is located, targets it as directly as possible and can therefore address it as accurately as possible but with only as much power as is necessary The network thus avoids unnecessary radiation for everyone who is not using their own mobile at that particular moment.

Adaptive antenna systems actually represent a more efficient technology that does exactly what the anti-radiation lobby has always wanted: it only transmit signals where and when needed, and protects non-users.