Who wants to cripple the development of 5G?
DL Recovery: in committee stop raising 5G limits, the Italia Viva amendment does not pass to raise the ceiling for electrosmog.
Italia viva's proposal to increase the limits of electrosmog linked to 5G was rejected.
After a long negotiation and a series of non-shared reformulations, the amendment of the party led by Matteo Renzi which provided for the raising of the threshold from 6 to 61 volts per square meter (adapting the Italian limits for electromagnetic fields to those of other countries Europeans) has not passed.
The amendment presented to the Recovery dl was first set aside and then rejected together with all those not yet examined and on which no explicit opinion had been expressed by the speakers and the government.
If on the one hand the Italian PNRR allocates 6.31 billion to ultra-fast and 5G networks (under the responsibility of the Minister for Digital Transition Vittorio Colao ), and the Governance PNRR and Simplifications decree, approved at the end of May, streamlines the proceeding, to allow fast implementation of 5G networks, the adaptation of electromagnetic emission limits to European levels is essential.
Without raising the threshold, telephone operators will in fact be forced to install many more antennas for the same territory and population. With a consequent increase in pollution from Co2 emissions.
"Now everything remains pending: the hope is that in September we can reopen the game", stresses La Verità .
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WHO IN FAVOR AND WHO AGAINST DRAGHI IN THE GOVERNMENT AT THE REVIEW OF 5G
As reported by Startmag last week, the revision of the electrosmog thresholds has divided the Draghi executive.
In addition to Minister Colao, the competent ministers Renato Brunetta (Pa), Roberto Cingolani (Ecological transition) and Roberto Speranza (Health) also supported Iv's proposal.
The position of Giancarlo Giorgetti, Minister for Economic Development, was less clear, who said: "I am in favor of 5G, also to the raising of limits, but in a transparent and clear way", referring to a tender launched in 2018, as he remembered The Truth .
Therefore, it is the owner of the Mise who is rowing against the raising of electromagnetic pollution limits (and harmonization with European levels). “Yes, he himself, the minister of economic development, the exponent of the pragmatic wing of the League, considered by his opponents to be a champion of the“ party of producers ”, sensitive to the needs of businesses and even of Confindustrial arguments. On the other hand, on the latest generation mobile network, it extends the network of doubt. He began by expressing his preference for the fixed network ” Il Foglio had pointed out.
THE BITTER OF ITALY ALIVE
"The government and the country have lost the opportunity to favor a technological leap forward, favoring the development of 5G in a more rapid, efficient and responsive way to the objectives set by the PNRR" said the parliamentarians Marco di Maio (author of the amendment ), Silvia Fregolent and Luciano Nobili. "The amendment we presented would have simply allowed the government to adjust the emission levels of electromagnetic fields to those of the vast majority of European states, certainly all those considered" champions "of ecology".
THE FRECCIATINA A GIORGETTI
“It is a pity that the Ministry of Economic Development did not want to believe in this proposal – underlined the exponents of Italia Viva – given that the ministries of ecological transition, digital transition and health had expressed a favorable opinion. As evidence that the phantom health risks do not exist (as already proven by the fact that the European states use the same limit). We are certain – they conclude – that this is an error of assessment and that in other measures the ministry will favor a measure of common sense and support for the country, for urban areas and above all for the more peripheral ones ”.
THE MISTAKE OF WINDTRE
The reactions of some telecommunications industries were also immediate.
Like that of WindTre, which already at the end of March urged the government to intervene on the limitations imposed on electromagnetic fields.
"A missed opportunity", said Benoit Hanssen, chief technology officer of the company, because "limiting the power of the antennas means forcing operators to install new transmission systems, with the consequence of a greater impact on the landscape and cities. , higher energy consumption, more bureaucracy. Without any reason, because international guidelines are respected everywhere in the world, which after 20 years of application on a global scale have proved to be reliable in protecting health. With such a low ceiling on the power of the antennas ”, more systems are needed with consequent“ invasion of antennas ”.
TOWARDS “THE INVASION OF ANTENNAS”?
Solution “not feasible because we know that the willingness to grant space for new plants is very limited,” Hansenn said. So "if the limits are not raised and permits are not issued to install new antennas, the result can only be a congested network, unable to handle data traffic that grows at a rate of 40/50% per year".
"For Italy", concluded the WindTre expert, "the risk is to find itself in a competitive trap: it has one of the most important industrial fabrics in the world, which must continue to digitize itself to compete with other countries, but it could lose ground to the advantage of France and Spain, as well as the emerging countries in Asia ”.
THE COMMENT OF ERICSSON
“After an unprecedented crisis, today Italy with the PNRR has a unique opportunity to return as leader in Europe and in the world. The government has decided to leverage the potential of digital technology to trigger and encourage recovery. And it is precisely the rapid, homogeneous and widespread diffusion of 5G and ultra-broadband, one of the conditions for transforming and regenerating entire sectors of our society and economy ”. To underline this, speaking of the rejection of the amendment to the Recovery DL to raise the electromagnetic emission limits, is Emanuele Iannetti, president and CEO of Ericsson Italia.
In his opinion, “in order not to frustrate the efforts made up to now, some urgent reforms are also necessary, including the harmonization of the Italian electromagnetic limits, now among the lowest in the world, with the European ones. The rejection of the amendment to the Recovery Decree, which aimed to equate the Italian emission limits with the already precautionary and scientifically safe ones suggested by the International Commission on Protection for Non-Ionizing Radiation (ICNIRP), and adopted among others by Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, risks transforming the digital divide into a digital abyss, placing the whole country at a competitive disadvantage, ”he says. "We invite all political components to reconsider the decision taken by starting immediately a confrontation based on scientific grounds, in line with what has already been found by national health institutions, academics and experts in the sector" concluded the manager.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/chi-vuole-azzoppare-lo-sviluppo-del-5g/ on Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:39:43 +0000.