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We investigated the effect of Cell tower and cell phone radiations in an Indian state of Kerala which has a population of about 35 million and has a teledensity equal to that of the United States. The examination area is divided into two categories - core zone, the highly exposed area and outer zone, area above 300m from a cell tower. The power, electric field and magnetic field densities of both the zones are measured using MECHO's radiation meter 9720. In addition, a survey is conducted in the personal interview method to collect data about ten relevant diseases. Statistical tests namely T-test, Independent sample test, Levene's test for equality of variance and ANOVA were carried out on the collected data using the software SPSS. Out of the ten diseases which were examined, nine are found to have a close relationship with the cell tower exposure. Females are found to be more affected. It is also found that more than 22% of the people are forced to live in a higher exposure level than the current Indian standard. It is also found that some phone habits are very harmful to human health. Based on our study, we designed a new standard, for maximum power density (280mW/m2) and maximum emitted radiated power (1407W) irrespective of the number of antennas, carriers, and operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effect of mobile tower radiation on child health in an ecologically sensitive area of Western Ghats in Idukki, Kerala is studied. In this paper, we have attempted to discover whether any relation exists between the RF exposure and the health of children under 15 years old. At some point of path of this work, twenty common diseases were considered. From our analysis, it has been discovered that five of them are very much related to RF exposure. Furthermore, the age group between ten to fifteen years is more vulnerable to mobile tower radiation, and boys are observed to be more affected than girls. In the region under study, exposure levels were well below the ICNIRP recommendations and the current Indian standards. However, still it is inadequate to safeguard children. So it is recommended to modify the current Indian standard of RF exposure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]