It is time to talk more about our lives with 5G, 6G and beyond. First, the focus here is two fold, what is 5G and how will we be affected technology & health wise?
5G is the declared 5th generation technology that will dominate our cell phones and routers that we use daily. This capability is based on bands that most likely will include newer frequency bands, such as: 3.7 GHz, 4.5 GHz, and especially 28 GHz and up allocations (also known as the mmWave regime) that can vary by country.
For expats in the PI, this directly touches on SAR limits in the USA that are ignored in some markets in Asia. The SAR is an old topic I touched on a few years ago here but can be viewed from the FCC website here: https://www.fcc.gov/general/specific-ab … telephones
The birth - Any of us that has a background in micro-electronics may recall being involved in circuit designs that grew from LSI to VLSI Technology in a matter of a few years. The LSI (Large Scale Integration) emergence enabled such things as microcircuits. The growth to VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) laid the foundation for “Hybrid” devices. All terms, standards and categories being directly tied into IEEE guidelines. See related info here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1135486
The concepts being pushed in 2020 - It was not long ago that we were introduced to MIMO technology to enhance our communications. With MIMO, our phone devices are loaded with “Multiple Input Multiple Output” radio antenna technology.
This means end-users here in 2020 and beyond, are not able to detect if the cell phone is using 2, 4, or even 8 built-n antennas by exterior features. This MIMO technology is confirmed by a simple search on Amazon where a newer “4X4” MU-MIMO Router can be seen with 10 antennas: https://www.amazon.com/FORTINET-FortiAP … s9dHJ1ZQ==
These multiple antennas enable both the transmitter and receiver to handle many signal paths. With MIMO, the data traffic is allocated to separate paths for each antenna. In summary, a fined tuned 5G system lays the foundation for 6G. With this increased bandwidth comes increased speeds and much larger data traffic.
As a US Army veteran that had a 1-year AIT or job (MOS) producing rating where for two years after, my job was to work on special communication systems/RF MW systems, this exposure to unsafe “power density levels” has had some health consequences.
Therefore, with higher powered, higher frequency MIMO cell phones entering the market globally, what are your fears, concerns or objections regarding holding 5G/6G phones, void of any SAR ratings, (allowed to be sold in the PI), with multiple antennas, next to your head?