5G – Global Rollout stunted by Covid19 yet no talk of Health and Biological Effects… does it make any sense?

Making sense of the guideline

“THE 5G READINESS GUIDE DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES, OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES ACROSS THE GLOBE” mentions that 5G global roll-out was stunted by Covid19 Pandemic, yet the Methodology DID NOT USE THE TIME TO ADJUST FOR NEW RESEARCH ON HEALTH &/OR BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS… This means the worldwide roll-out assumes no adverse health effects – which is highly questionable according to Prof. John William Frank, UK’s experienced epidemiologist. Is the guide still relevant?

Making sense of the methodology

The Methodology reads as follows: “We have ranked 60 countries as “High”, “Medium” or “Low” on six key parameters: business environment, spectrum availability, 5G deployment, network speed, progress on industry trials and robustness of 5G policy. NB. NO PARAMETERS FOR MONITORING ADVERSE HEALTH AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS!! The aim is to gauge countries’ readiness for 5G rollout and implementation, based not only on the current status of 5G deployment, but also on the government initiatives and policies that will drive future investment. Business Environment Rankings (BER): use our existing BER scores for 82 countries. “High” = 1-30, “Medium” = 31-60, “Low” = 61 and above. For the remaining indicators, we have carried out a qualitative assessment based on our research, where: Spectrum availability: assesses the status of auctions and spectrum bands available as at June 15th.

“High” denotes a country that has access to spectrum above 6 GHz. “Medium” means the country has access to, or is in the process of auctioning, spectrum in the 1-6-GHz range. “Low” means either the country only has access to frequencies under 1 GHz or has yet to auction any 5G spectrum. 5G deployment: assesses network deployment based on data from Ookla; Speed: uses data on 5G average download speeds from Opensignal as at June 2021 or (if 5G data are unavailable) 4G average download speeds from Ookla in May 2021. Progress on trials: evaluates R&D carried out into industrial applications of 5G technology. 5G policy: assesses whether the country has a national 5G policy in place and whether it covers auctions, deployments and medium-term strategy. We also consider government efforts to support 5G trials via state-sponsored test labs, tax incentives, direct investment and public-private collaboration.

“The global rollout of 5G has been affected by the pandemic. Until the pandemic derailed rollout plans, dried up investment and diverted government focus, 2020 was expected to be the year of 5G, the next generation of mobile standards.” – P.3 Clearly the static pre-pandemic “methodology” is locked into insular 5G tech thinking despite the ever-changing and dynamic Covid19 mutation context and global impact! Any scientific methodology worth its salt would have adjusted for relevance.

Making sense of 5G “Science”

An essay by Professor John William Frank, calls for a moratorium on further 5G rollout. An experienced epidemiologist and chair of public health research and policy at the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics concludes in his essay published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.– “Electromagnetic fields, 5G and health: what about the precautionary principle?” – that industry and health agencies should “err on the side of caution.” The precautionary health principle championed by Frank is when “significant doubt about the safety of a new and potentially widespread human exposure should be a reason to call a moratorium on that exposure.” The 5G moratorium should stay, he argued, “pending adequate scientific investigation of suspected adverse health effects.”Frank ruefully notes, however, that the updated guidelines – which take into account 5G’s arrival – have “essentially not changed” since the last batch of recommendations ICNIRP made to WHO in 1998. Obviously, run-away tech cannot be in the best interest of the greater good?

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