Officials from the United States regulator for communications the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have confirmed that 5G is safe and the rules regulating radio emissions for safety don’t need to be changed in order to cater for it exclusively.
However, the commission wants to make a few changes to the way it determines whether radio wave emissions are safe for humans, but those changes are only designed to make the rules more consistent across technology types, the commission said. There is no indication that the rules will be made any stricter, as the current limits are already “among the most stringent in the world.” FCC says it’s no different than 3G or 4G
According to the Verge, there has never been compelling evidence that 5G radio waves are dangerous. While they’re higher frequency than the radio waves used for 4G, they remain in the part of the radio spectrum that doesn’t damage human DNA — what’s known as non-ionizing radiation. Even the higher-frequency emissions used in 5G remain less energetic than visible light.
FCC officials said that there was no sign 5G airwaves would be any less safe than the airwaves used for 3G or 4G according to what they told reporters.
There has been a lot of debates regarding safety of the radiation that reaches the handsets we use. In the past, officials from our very own UCC has come out to say that 4G and 3G radio waves are safe.
But today’s gesture is its firmest acknowledgement yet that the United States believes 5G is safe to use. By leaving emissions standards unchanged, it means that the existing standards are already strict enough to determine when radio emissions become problematic. Also, this will apply to all the devices that will use this technology including phones, modems, routers and will still fall within those standards.
