The Department of Telecom (DoT) on Thursday issued notices to seven mobile operators in the city for violating the new mobile-related radiation norms, which came into effect from September 1.
The notices asking these companies to immediately stop excess radiation from their BTS (base transceiver station) towers were issued after a team of officials found one of the sites (at Kanjur Marg ) in the megapolis which houses 11 BTSs of eight telcos, emitting radiation levels much above permissible limits, a DoT release said here this evening.
The violation was detected when random measurements were carried out in some houses near the BTS antennas. The site had BTS from RCom, Tata Tele, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel and Loop, the release said, adding on the spot orders were issued to the seven operators to stop radiating from these BTSs with immediate effect.
On September 1, the government lowered electromagnetic frequency exposure limit from base station emission to one-tenth of the existing level and declared that it would slap a penalty of Rs 5 lakh for non-compliance per tower per operator.
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The notices asking these companies to immediately stop excess radiation from their BTS (base transceiver station) towers were issued after a team of officials found one of the sites (at Kanjur Marg ) in the megapolis which houses 11 BTSs of eight telcos, emitting radiation levels much above permissible limits, a DoT release said here this evening.
The violation was detected when random measurements were carried out in some houses near the BTS antennas. The site had BTS from RCom, Tata Tele, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel and Loop, the release said, adding on the spot orders were issued to the seven operators to stop radiating from these BTSs with immediate effect.
On September 1, the government lowered electromagnetic frequency exposure limit from base station emission to one-tenth of the existing level and declared that it would slap a penalty of Rs 5 lakh for non-compliance per tower per operator.
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