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CTIA Sues City of San Francisco Over Wireless Law

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About time!

JeffdaBeat

Jul 23, 2010, 3:11 PM
Everyone complains about how bad AT&T is in San Fran and I've always wondered why. New York, I get. Manhattan alone has over a million people in a very concentrated area. San Fran is a big city, but its not nearly as concentrated. It's this organization stopping the building of more towers.

We can blame carriers all we want, but carriers have no chance of improving coverage if the city won't let them.
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JeffdaBeat

Jul 23, 2010, 3:12 PM
These are also the same folks who blocked Google and other companies from having city wide wifi...
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jskrenes

Jul 24, 2010, 10:45 AM
JeffdaBeat said:
We can blame carriers all we want, but carriers have no chance of improving coverage if the city won't let them.


I don't think that the SAR rating has much to do with reception. I mean, some phones with higher radiation ratings tend to do a bit better on reception, but that's not a 1:1 ratio there. So I fail to see how being required to report a phone's radiation rating has anything to do with improving coverage.
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Joshmo

Jul 24, 2010, 11:07 AM
they're saying that the city of san fransico is so worried about radiation that they wont let carriers put in the network to provide the city with decent coverage.
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fahrende

Jul 24, 2010, 11:49 AM
Funny thing is, all they have to do is drive out of SF to buy their cell phones.

Funny thing is, they're so full of themselves, that they won't dare venture out of SF to buy their cell phones into the evil suburbs. Of course, venturing out only to work their change the world tech jobs doesn't count.
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slolearner

Jul 24, 2010, 12:20 PM
fahrende said:Funny thing is, they're so full of themselves, that they won't dare venture out of SF to buy their cell phones into the evil suburbs. Of course, venturing out only to work their change the world tech jobs doesn't count.

😉 Yeah! And their phones are all bought for them by their companies anyway, so what's the big deal?

I think the CTIA is just worried that people are going to see the label as a "surgeon general's warning", rather than just some hippie's way of being helpful to consumers. The auto industry had the same reaction when the lead warnings went up.
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fahrende

Jul 24, 2010, 4:18 PM
I love this dumbing down of America. Everything has a risk.

I'm going to petition to get a bill passed that requires newborn babies to have a warning label that reads, "Caution, being alive increases the risk of cancer!"

You know, it's kind of funny when I read about how studies done later on usually reveal that these kind of preemptive safety laws usually don't have the intended effect. Sometimes they even transfer the risk to an unaffected party(ie seat belt belt laws causing more pedestrian injuries).

My personal opinion about tobacco companies is that they don't have the balls to be honest about their product, so they keep caving into government demands.

But that's just this one nutjob's opinion.
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Jayshmay

Jul 24, 2010, 5:23 PM
This "I'm going to petition to get a bill passed that requires newborn babies to have a warning label that reads, "Caution, being alive increases the risk of cancer!" is some funny ****!!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
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fahrende

Jul 24, 2010, 6:45 PM
The sad thing is, if I actually tried that, some moron do-gooder politician might actually take it seriously.
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Jayshmay

Jul 24, 2010, 6:47 PM
Possibly your right about that.
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fahrende

Jul 24, 2010, 9:38 PM
The fact that a remote possibility MIGHT exist disturbs me.

So much for personal responsibility...

So where do I get in line to sue?
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WinstonCourt

Jul 26, 2010, 11:58 AM
Everyone does realize that the frequencies of radio waves which are used by cell phones have many of the same qualities as those frequencies of radio waves your microwave oven uses, right? And, among those qualities is the quality to cook food, or specifically meat! Although the power levels that phones emit are only a small fraction of the power levels used in microwave ovens, I would personally consider it nice to know the levels the phones are emitting. And, yes, those levels might influence my purchases of phones. One example would be, in the city with easy access to cell towers, why not go with the lowest possible emission levels and worry about my health. However, if I lived in a remote location I would have to accept higher levels and...
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