Europe's Digital Agenda Under Threat from Restrictions on 4G Deployment

Brussels, Italy, Lithuania, Paris and Poland have all impacted the rollout of high speed mobile technology by setting exposure limits for mobile phone network antennas around 50 times below the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) levels recommended by the EU and the World Health Organization.

Europe’s Digital Agenda under threat from restrictions on 4G deployment
gsma.com, 25 March 2014

Plans to revitalize the EU economy through digital technology and innovation are being hampered by non-science based restrictions on mobile phone antennas in some member countries, according to a new GSMA report.

At the end of 2013 less than two per cent of mobile users in Europe were connected with the latest high speed mobile broadband technology, compared to nearly 20 per cent of users in the United States who had a 4G/LTE connection.
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