'In summary, this study shows that environmental exposure is lower when base station density is low,' said the study's lead author, epidemiology researcher Adriana Fernandes Veludo. 'However, in such a situation, the emission from mobile phones is by orders of magnitude higher.' This indicates that users in rural areas could be more exposed to RF-EMF due to their devices working harder to obtain signals rather than exposure from towers.
The team found that the average exposure in the rural areas was 29 milliwatts-per-square-meter (mW/sq-m) when uploading, nearly three-times the safety risk threshold recommended by the World Health Organization, 10 mW/sq-m.
'This has the paradoxical consequence that a typical mobile phone user is more exposed to RF-EMF in areas with low base station density,' according to Fernandes Veludo. She noted that users in the rural areas might face higher risks due to device performance instead of tower proximity.
Fernandes Veludo mentioned that the new findings 'might underestimate the real exposure' coming from these 5G cell phones, suggesting that actual risks could be higher than measured.
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