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T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents
Submitted 4 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
barsquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I really wish the government would do their goddamn jobs regarding monopolies. Instead they are just accepting bribes and facilitating the mergers.
Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Look into the current grocery monopoly in the making. Kroger is attempting to purchase Albertsons/Safeway.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 months ago
Mind crossposting this to !t_mobile@lemmy.ml?
Also, they will lose. The FCC has said that the companies can build towers where they are needed for coverage. They might have to make it look like a tree or something, but they cannot be rejected from building it.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 months ago
With the supreme Court overturning the Chevron decision last week, I’m not so sure that any federal regulatory bodies have much power anymore unless there’s a specific law passed by Congress. That’s what made that decision so dangerous, because the same applies to the FDA now regarding drugs and food.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 months ago
scotusblog.com/…/supreme-court-strikes-down-chevr…
A good overview of the circumstances of the recent Chevron decision.
Please note the final paragraph. Koch’s goal is exactly this: bringing cases in front of the Supreme Court that, if won, would cause grave disturbances.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 months ago
You know, that’s a good point. I didn’t even think of that. But you’re right.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Be surprised if the courts cause problems with this given that cellphones are 911 devices and a means of making government emergency announcements. Those typical override the wishes of the snti-vaxx Karens of planning boards
Neato@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
This isn’t regulatory. The auctions companies bid on and win have provisions in them that require companies to utilize the spectrum in X years. They must supply coverage if they bought the spectrum; they can’t sit on it.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They are missing out on a chance to get their free 5G magnetic mark of the beast skin
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
The planning board’s decision was based on health concerns due to the possible negative environmental impact of telecommunication on the residents, especially the children studying at the school who could potentially be exposed to electromagnetic radiation.
Because that surely would be the only cell tower in town.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh no, not electromagnetism! Someone tell these dipshits we live on a gigantic magnet
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Also tell them we’re constantly bombarded by electromagnetic radiation on the daily from the fucking sun
limelight79@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I wonder what the wifi access in the school is like?
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Build it, don’t turn it on, watch all the residents complain about new ailments and conditions caused by the 5G.
Reveal that it’s never even been powered to really hammer home their ignorant bullshit.
The cognitively impaired should not be able to do this sort of shit.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is hilarious, a win-win in my book. I get to laugh at the ridiculous claim about radio waves frying people’s brains or whatever, and at the same time, every day of stalling hurts an exploitive POS telecom company.
I’m rooting for the loonies! Protect our kids! You show those lizard people!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Lol.
But T-Mobile is less bad the other telecoms. The enemy of my enemy and all that.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Not so much anymore after kicking a bunch of people off their plans when they had guaranteed pricing along with a bunch of other shitty shenanigans they’ve been up to as of late. I’ve been a customer for close to 20 years but am thinking about jumping ship as of late.
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
The planning board’s decision was based on health concerns due to the possible negative environmental impact of telecommunication on the residents, especially the children studying at the school who could potentially be exposed to electromagnetic radiation. The town felt the residents would be ‘unsafe’ due to radio frequencies and rejected the company’s notion of building the tower on the land.
I mean, I think that the planning board is idiotic, but I don’t see why T-Mobile cares enough to fight it. If they don’t build it, the Wanaque is going to have crummy cell coverage. Let them have bad cell coverage and build a tower somewhere else. It’s not like this is the world’s only place that could use better cell coverage.
Zak@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A quick web search for third-party tells me that Wanaque has good coverage from Verizon and poor coverage from T-Mobile. It’s easy to guess why T-Mobile might be motivated to change that situation.
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
This shows that Verizon has good coverage in part of Wanaque, moderate coverage in part, and no coverage in part.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Speedtest.net bought a service that was doing this already sort of. I looked just now and I think it’s their “map” option on their mobile app. You need to switch between carriers to see coverage.
The tech was based off of manual speed tests and a background app that would measure coverage from a phone for a small area, about the size of 3 square acres.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
start publishing a coverage score for cities for cell coverage
Each of them has an internal one and since contractors bounce around it’s like a wiki but slower.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That website was not safe for viewing
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 4 months ago
Unless you view it with an adblocker, like a sane human would do. Looks perfectly normal for me.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
My 5G coverage isn’t good, it may be time for another COVID shot.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How does anyone become sensitive to a 5g wireless signal? I could see maybe z pscemaker or some kind brain stimulator device but just a bare bones corpus delecti would seem to be known early enough to decide not to live near the broadcaster
Sabata11792@ani.social 4 months ago
How does anyone become sensitive to a 5g wireless signal?
Stupid and uneducated people not fit for modern society that get exposed to raw internet tend to be the most vulnerable group.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not enough attention as a child, wants to get on TV, cant accept that their shit diet and aging means they dont feel like a 21 year old anymore.
Maybe all three.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ok now everyone put your magnetized needles in the Styrofoam and then make them float in the water to reveal where magnetic north is!
Ahh teacher… Magnetic north is dancing metal rock right now.
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Thank god I’m safe! And I will be dead and gone before it happens here. It’s going to be decades before 5G is implemented where I live. Hell, 4G is spotty and unreliable even yet today. Even 3G was terrible.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My issue with Verizon 5g is that it is worse than their old Edge service.
5g on my signal bar essentially means “doesn’t work.” It wasn’t an issue when I could turn off the 5g radio, but Samsung pushed an update that removed that option.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s those got damn lizard people
femtech@midwest.social 4 months ago
Ahhh more “health” quacks, I wonder if they also believe the COVID vaccines have 5g chips in them.
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 months ago
$5 says when they build it anyway everyone starts complaining about health problems, then they say they haven’t even turned it on yet
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They’ve definitely done that before, dunno if it was deliberately. They must have somewhat of an idea how long it takes for nocebo to kick in with the local village idiots, if it’s short enough it could actually be a rather good idea to make waiting a bit a general policy. Tank some mild capital and opportunity cost to prevent having to battle in court and the town newspaper? Sounds like a win to me.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Lol don’t tell them about all the radio frequencies around them all the time
aleph@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Or the EMF generators they carry around with them in their pockets, A.K.A their phones.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Tell them how much power the TV and radio broadcast towers put out and watch them freak out. The analog TV stations ran even higher power than the digital ones do now.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wonder what they must think of telecommunication satellites.
The space rays are making me sick!
athairmor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait ‘til they learn what the sun is putting out.
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you remember when people started selling faraday cages to “safeguard” people’s routers? So funny lol
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 months ago
They’re beaming electromagnetic waves into your eyes, man!
bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ackshually, being too close to high power radio frequencies isn’t safe. I remember in one base I was at in Afghanistan, there was a smoke spot we all used to take breaks at. For some reason, I started developing really bad headaches and feeling kind of nauseous. I figured I was just acclimating to the local climate or something. After a few weeks, I was up on our building installing one of our satcom dishes on top of it when I noticed something. Right on the other side of the fence of that smoke area, was a ~2m high powered dish pointing just above above where the smoke area was. I pointed this out to the Norwegians that ran the camp and the break area was promptly moved, lol.
But seriously, I do not understand the anti-5G nutters.
Neato@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
FCC already has regulations on maximum power. These emitters are usually dozens of feet off the ground as well.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Hell the high power WiFi equipment^‡^ I installed at my Grandma’s house had warnings about keeping a few feet clear of it when powered on due to health concerns and that’s just WiFi equipment. I can’t imagine the dosage of gnarly from a 2m powered dish.
‡ I installed that equipment because she wanted WiFi on all 10 acres of her property and she didn’t want me to install more stations around her property. Now she has the broadcast equipment in her garage with a tape line on the floor like it’s a Goddamned radiation research facility lol
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 months ago
The higher the frequency, the worse that is. So standing very close to an HF antenna that only broadcasts up to like say 30 megahertz is different than standing next to a 700 megahertz cell phone antenna, which is different from standing next to a 2.5 gigahertz cell phone antenna. The reasoning for that is due to power levels and wavelength of the radio signal itself.