Health

Vashi residents canvas against cell towers

NAVI MUMBAI: A group of residents of sector 17, Vashi, are demanding the removal of mobile towers from the node.

Publication Date: 
16/06/2014
Sameera Kapoor Munshi
Times of India (Navi Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Mobile Tower, Electromagnetic Radiation (EM Radiation), Health Effects, Telecommunication, Health
Habitat And Urbanisation

ISO 37120: Sustainable development of communities - Indicators for city services and quality of life

ISO 37120 establishes definitions and methodologies for a set of city indicators to steer and measure delivery of city services and quality of life.

Publication Date: 
15/05/2014
ISO
Tags:
Urbanisation, Economy, Environment, Education, Energy, Finance, Governance, Health, Solid Waste, Telecommunication, Urban Planning, Transport, Wastewater, Water Supply, Sanitation
Health

Radiation norms: Clean chit to mobile towers in Kerala

The Kerala cell of the department of Telecom has conducted physical testing of over 7,000 base transceiver stations and all of them were found to be compliant

The Kerala cell of Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM), working under the department of Telecommunications, has given a clean chit to base transceiver stations (BTSs), popularly known as cell phone towers, in respect of compliance to radiation norms.

Publication Date: 
15/05/2014
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Kerala, Mobile Tower, Telecommunication, Electromagnetic Radiation (EM Radiation), Health Effects, Health
Health

SC issues notices over installation of mobile towers in residential areas

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA), Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and mobile companies over installation of mobile phon

Publication Date: 
13/05/2014
Pakistan Observer
Tags:
Mobile Tower, Radiation, Health Effects, Pakistan, Supreme Court, Health, Telecommunication, South Asia
Health

Radiation norms: clean chit for mobile towers in State

The Kerala cell of Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM), under the Department of Telecommunications, has given a clean chit to Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs), popularly known as cel

Publication Date: 
08/05/2014
R. Ramabhadran Pillai
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Mobile Tower, Telecommunication, Electromagnetic Radiation (EM Radiation), Ernakulam, Health Effects, Health
Climate Change

Major public companies describe climate-related risks and costs: a review of findings from CDP 2011-2013 disclosures

This review overviews the climate-change-related disclosures from public companies to institutional investors. The report presents key findings and responses provided by S&P 500 companies across economic sectors to the risk-related questions in CDP’s annual disclosure requests from 2011 to 2013.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2014
Carbon Disclosure Project
Tags:
Climate Change, Industry, United States Of America (US), Energy, Finance, Health Care, Information, Technology, Telecommunication
Governance And Institutions

The economics of net neutrality

The emergence of broadband networks - both wireline and wireless - has assisted in fostering the applications and content development, and provided content and application providers with a huge and growing addressable market with very low barriers to entry. However, there is always a tension between end-user connectivity providers and CAPs on the nuances of net neutrality, the principle that content consumed should be decided by the end-user without any distortion by the connectivity provider.

Publication Date: 
19/04/2014
Rohit Prasad, V Sridhar
Economic and Political Weekly
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52-58
Tags:
Internet, India, European Union (EU), United States Of America (US), Telecommunication, Services
Health

Farooqui Wants Maharashtra to Tone Down Telecom Tower Rules

Telecom Secretary MF Farooqui has asked Maharashtra to bring its proposed cell-tower radiation rules in line with the telecom department’s guidelines as otherwise it would hurt the development of t

Publication Date: 
19/03/2014
Kalyan Parbat
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mobile Tower, Telecommunication, Electromagnetic Radiation (EM Radiation), Health Effects, Health
Health

DoT slams new policy, says not kept in the loop

Taking objection to the state cellphone tower policy that bans installation of base station antennae within the three-metre radius of schools, colleges and hospitals, the Telecom Enforcement Resour

Publication Date: 
11/03/2014
Mihika Basu
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Mumbai, Mobile Tower, Telecommunication, Electromagnetic Radiation (EM Radiation), Health Effects, Health
Health

NEERI for study of mobile tower radiation

The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) informed the Kerala High Court on Thursday that a detailed study on the effect of mobile tower radiation on human health could be u

Publication Date: 
07/03/2014
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Mobile Tower, Electromagnetic Radiation (EM Radiation), High Court, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Health Effects, Telecommunication, Diseases, Health

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