Phones can connect to the network using either your wireless plan (e.g. Verizon) or your local wifi router that you have in your home or office. The difference is that the wireless plan requires that you connect to a cell tower than can be up to a mile away with lots of stuff between you and it blocking the signal. Your cell phone can te…
Phones can connect to the network using either your wireless plan (e.g. Verizon) or your local wifi router that you have in your home or office. The difference is that the wireless plan requires that you connect to a cell tower than can be up to a mile away with lots of stuff between you and it blocking the signal. Your cell phone can tell this as it gets a signal status from the cell tower. So your phone keeps cranking up the power (the strength of the signal it's transmitting) until it gets a message that the tower is receiving it adequately. This is really oversimplified but it's the basis of what's called adaptive power control.
Your wifi router on the other hand is likely no more than fifty feet away. As I mentioned above, the signal drops as the square of the distance. So in the example of the cell tower a mile away (5280 feet) versus the wifi router 50 feet away, the equation is 5280^2/50^2 = 11,151. That means your cell phone has to put out eleven thousand times more power to connect to that cell tower than the wifi router!! This will vary depending on how far away the cell tower is, but by routinely using wifi data/calling you will reduce exposure.
As with any poison, harm is determined by the duration of exposure and the *magnitude* of the exposure. Using wifi dramatically reduces the magnitude.
Phones can connect to the network using either your wireless plan (e.g. Verizon) or your local wifi router that you have in your home or office. The difference is that the wireless plan requires that you connect to a cell tower than can be up to a mile away with lots of stuff between you and it blocking the signal. Your cell phone can tell this as it gets a signal status from the cell tower. So your phone keeps cranking up the power (the strength of the signal it's transmitting) until it gets a message that the tower is receiving it adequately. This is really oversimplified but it's the basis of what's called adaptive power control.
Your wifi router on the other hand is likely no more than fifty feet away. As I mentioned above, the signal drops as the square of the distance. So in the example of the cell tower a mile away (5280 feet) versus the wifi router 50 feet away, the equation is 5280^2/50^2 = 11,151. That means your cell phone has to put out eleven thousand times more power to connect to that cell tower than the wifi router!! This will vary depending on how far away the cell tower is, but by routinely using wifi data/calling you will reduce exposure.
As with any poison, harm is determined by the duration of exposure and the *magnitude* of the exposure. Using wifi dramatically reduces the magnitude.
Ok, I think I got it. Thanks.