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Mirror. Co,UK. 11 April 2006

A MAN who designed parts for early mobile phone networks wants to stop a mast being built near his home because he now believes they are dangerous

Alan Banks, 58, claims the transmissions can affect people’s DNA.

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Mirror. Co,UK.

11 April 2006

NOKIA ACE MAST WAR
A MAN who designed parts for early mobile phone networks wants to stop a mast being built near his home because he now believes they are dangerous.

Alan Banks, 58, claims the transmissions can affect people’s DNA.

Vodafone plans to build a mast next to his house and the Freeman hospital in Newcastle.

Mr Banks, who designed a vital component for Nokia’s first network, said: "At that time no one really knew how they might affect health.

"People still don’t know for sure what the impact is. As long as there’s any doubt over the safety of masts our response is no."

Vodafone said it would meet safety standards.

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The Mirror

April 11th 2006.

An engineer who helped pioneer mobile phone masts is
campaigning against one being erected near his local hospital - on
health grounds.
Alan Banks, 58, admits the masts are an eyesore and
can affect people’s DNA structure
even though he helped design them.
Mr Banks’ designs were used by
Nokia when the Finnish giant first built mobiloe phone base
stations. But he is among objectors
demanding that plans for new Vodafone 3G masts near Newcastle’s Freeman
Hospital are scrapped.
Mr Banks, who lives near the hospital,
said:"It’s not just that they are an
eyesore, the whole area is already peppered with radiation. "They
could use the local park, which is a wide open space away from
everyone. "Even though mobile
phones are relatively low power, living around them will mean you’re
exposed to them all the time. "The 3G masts are much more powerful
due to the amount of data they
have to carry, thanks to picture messages and Internet access to your
phone. "The data sent is much more complex these days."

Mr Banks designed the key
component used by Nokia for its first mobile phone network. His
design led to the component which converts the human voice into a form
that can be sent from one phone
to another without breaking up. He gave the company’s network the
ability to"chop up" information fed by the masts into individual
conversations The engineer
said:"At that time no one really knew how it might affect people’s
health. "People still don’t know for sure what the impact is. But
they’re know to cause problems with
DNA, it alters people’s cells." Freeman Hospital estates
manager Robin Smith voiced his concerns. He said:"They want the
mast right in the middle of the
pavement and we have tried to point out to them the problems this will
create. "The jury is still out on the aspects of mobile phone
masts. We do now allow mobile phones
in the hospital as they can’t be allowed within two metres of any
medical equipment. "We manage to stop the building of masts on top
of our sites, but we fail every time for
the ones on our boundaries. "As long as there’s any doubt over the
safety of these masts our response is ’no.’", A spokeswoman for Vodafone
said the company was meeting
safety guidelines set by the government and that new masts are built as
a last resort. Jane Frapwell, an adviser on electronic radiation,
said:"Our policy is first to co-locate
new aerials next to an existing mast or near an exisitng structure, such
as a building."