stuie Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 9 hours ago, emfscientist.org said: It is not to benefit festival goers who will not have 5g phones, it is to test this dangerous level of electromagnetic radiation on festival goers physical health in a controlled area. The ICNIRP 'guidelines' for safety that UK GOV refers to are from 1996. https://www.emfscientist.org/ 5G is untested technology. Thanks for popping by. Don't worry, we'll wear our tin foil hats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hfuhruhurr Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Won't 5G enable site-wide wifi? As for radiation, the thing everyone forgets when complaining about masts is that they put a responsive radio next to their heads. The closer the mast, the less radiation for your head - it being an inverse square law. So, ideally we should have small cells everywhere to reduce radiation next to our heads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunk pumpkin Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Yesterday I messaged the festival throught the contact process on the 5G issue. Waiting for a response which i'll post. I'm sure that with the festivals ethos and links to greenpeace ect that if we do have 5G it will be very safe and not at all dangerous! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
incident Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, drunk pumpkin said: Yesterday I messaged the festival throught the contact process on the 5G issue. Waiting for a response which i'll post. I'm sure that with the festivals ethos and links to greenpeace ect that if we do have 5G it will be very safe and not at all dangerous! In all seriousness - why bother? Multiple governments, industry bodies, scientists, etc across the world are saying that using these frequencies is safe. Granted, there's mostly vested interests there but it's still be best information we have unless you want to rely on nutjobs like the one above with at best anecdotal evidence and usually not even that. Right now I don't think the mobile telephony research division of GFL has the level of resource required to conduct their own detailed investigation, and so they're going to go on the evidence available. Of course the response is going to be that it's safe. And the person responding to you is going to mentally append "you idiot" when they write it. We get this bullshit every time a new set of frequencies get introduced, dating back pretty much as long as mobile phones have existed, and so far none of the scare stories have been proven correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morph100 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Maybe the 5G will be for people working at the festival, reporters etc who may need decent internet access as they move about site? Mind you don't know if the BBC budgets would stretch to 5G devices. Point is I doubt it's purely for the punters benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuie Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Oh, here we go. https://www.change.org/p/ee-network-glastonbury-festival-no-5g-at-glastonbury-festival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychology Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Someone has started a petition against it! ? https://www.change.org/p/ee-network-glastonbury-festival-no-5g-at-glastonbury-festival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 (edited) "mess up our bodies and the energy of the land" So scientific! Read the comments below the petition. Comedy gold. Garry Frazer·13 hours ago 5G is fucking stupid Andrew Smith 15 hours ago Mobile phones hurt my head when I use them & im worried this will be intensified with 5G!! Edited April 26, 2019 by The Nal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartbert two hats Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 10 hours ago, emfscientist.org said: It is not to benefit festival goers who will not have 5g phones, it is to test this dangerous level of electromagnetic radiation on festival goers physical health in a controlled area. The ICNIRP 'guidelines' for safety that UK GOV refers to are from 1996. https://www.emfscientist.org/ 5G is untested technology. Hmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombfrog Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 10 hours ago, emfscientist.org said: It is not to benefit festival goers who will not have 5g phones, it is to test this dangerous level of electromagnetic radiation on festival goers physical health in a controlled area. The ICNIRP 'guidelines' for safety that UK GOV refers to are from 1996. https://www.emfscientist.org/ 5G is untested technology. Oh just fuck off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said: Hmm. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosj Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, The Nal said: "mess up our bodies and the energy of the land" So scientific! Read the comments below the petition. Comedy gold. Garry Frazer·13 hours ago 5G is fucking stupid Cheers. I'm going to use that phrase with things I don't like. Manager, ignoring my suggestion is fucking stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotdash79 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 The frequency’s in use for 5G have been in use for ages, but for other things. In fact the way it will likely work is that the 5G board cast towers will be quite low powered but more frequent with a wired connection back to an exchange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 12 minutes ago, carlosj said: Cheers. I'm going to use that phrase with things I don't like. Manager, ignoring my suggestion is fucking stupid. Exercise is fucking stupid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuie Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 Just in case one petition wasn't enough... https://www.change.org/p/festival-people-no-5g-from-ee-at-glastonbury-festival Quote What happened to the green ethos of this festival? Has Emily turned it into a massive capitalist venture ? Sad . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombfrog Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 1 minute ago, stu_kent said: Just in case one petition wasn't enough... https://www.change.org/p/festival-people-no-5g-from-ee-at-glastonbury-festival This comment is fucking stupid. The people who don't understand radiation are the same people who complain about GMOs and don't immunise their children. They probably believe they can be healed by crystals and that cannabis cures cancer or something. Fuck 'em. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernintendo Chalmers Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 10,000 people snorting powdered horse tranquilizer for 5 days straight and my guy is out here worried about millimetre waves... 1 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosj Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, bombfrog said: This comment is fucking stupid. The people who don't understand radiation are the same people who complain about GMOs and don't immunise their children. They probably believe they can be healed by crystals and that cannabis cures cancer or something. Fuck 'em. *hmm, hatches fiendish plan to plant fake news about how Somerset is more irradiated than Chernobyl, for the October sales * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaytee... Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said: 10,000 people snorting powdered horse tranquilizer for 5 days straight and my guy is out here worried about millimetre waves... This. If you smoke or drink or eat meat or even breathe and you oppose this, you may as well live in a bubble ??♀️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlastoEls Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 5G concerns do not affect us who use only 2001 Nokia 3310s at Glastonbury! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasto-worker Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 I am waiting for 10G !!!! I bought my first 4G Smartphone late in 2016 so was looking forward to seeing how it worked at Glasto 2017 but I ended up stuck in Hospital for more than a Month {June and July 2017} for a artery bypass so never got to try it out and just to really wind me up I ended up in a Intensive care unit during Glastonbury week and in that Unit No Television was allowed so I missed the whole thing - the only possible time I could see Glasto live on TV and I missed it completely and they had a phone blocking system in use within that unit so could not even view it using my Smartphone !!!! - I did try the phone out at Womad but was forced to use the Punter wi-fi which used to log me out after a few minutes so this year will be the first year I can try out the WBC Crew wi-fi which is only meant for Production but I am sure I can persuade them to give me the password. all this 5G test sounds a none starter unless they are going to loan out 5G phones !!! Many years ago I and 2,000 other professional testers were the first to try out BT's Broadband in the London area - 512 kbit/s {1/2 a MB} may sound slow now but every other UK Household was using dial up with a best possible speed of 56 kbit/s if they were very lucky and there was not the time lag you get now with UK Servers because these days Everyman and his dog has access to high speed broadband. they should build on their 2G, 3G, 4G network and worry about 5G when a good amount of people can afford to buy the 5G phones and then that would really test the 5G Network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 3 minutes ago, glasto-worker said: Many years ago I and 2,000 other professional testers were the first to try out BT's Broadband in the London area - 512 kbit/s {1/2 a MB} may sound slow now but every other UK Household was using dial up with a best possible speed of 56 kbit/s if they were very lucky and there was not the time lag you get now with UK Servers because these days Everyman and his dog has access to high speed broadband. And many years later you had to have an artery bypass. COINCIDENCE??? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombfrog Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, Quark said: And many years later you had to have an artery bypass. COINCIDENCE??? No more upvotes left today, but ??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretFish Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 3 hours ago, GlastoEls said: 5G concerns do not affect us who use only 2001 Nokia 3310s at Glastonbury! Just don’t go for a day without texting... @Dillyblue @blobm 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnomicide Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 I've heard they're going to give out 5g phones to selected journalists, influencers and Glastonbury based social media accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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