Is it true that base stations can affect medical devices such as heart pacemakers?
At ground level and in adjacent buildings, signal levels from radio base stations are too low to interfere with such devices. An American report has investigated this matter and concluded: There is no evidence that base station antennas will interfere with cardiac pacemakers or other implanted medical devices as long as exposure levels are within the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard for uncontrolled (public) exposure. (Cellular Phone Antennas and Human Health by John E Moulder, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin February 2003) In the UK Vodafones installations are designed to comply with EU standards, which are more stringent than those of ANSI. Therefore the quote above is equally, if not even more, relevant in this country.
