title: Observations from national Italian fixed radiofrequency monitoring network.
abstract: We analyzed a database of more than 50 million data points from the national Italian fixed radiofrequency (RF) field monitoring network that was operational between June 2002 and November 2006. We applied a modified Regression on Order Statistics approach to reanalyze the database and to deal with the large proportion of entries (39.8%) below detection sensitivity of the probe systems. We found no more than an 18% variation in annual wideband levels during the 2002-2006 period. Mean value for mobile communications band was 0.047 μW/cm(2) for the period 2005-2006. Findings of this analysis are consistent with similar previous studies and we conclude that mean environmental RF levels from cellular mobile communications systems are typically less than 0.1 μW/cm(2) .
authors: GSMA, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Jack T
authors: JT
authors: Rowley
authors: Joyner & Associates Pty. Ltd., Heathmont, Australia.
authors: Ken H
authors: KH
authors: Joyner
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D007558:Italy; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011846:Radio Waves
keywords: RF exposure trends; RF monitoring; cellular networks; environmental RF exposure levels; mobile networks