Some citizens have concerns about the 30 meter high radio mast planned by Telekom in Mauggen.
A company representative commented on this in the local council on Thursday.
BY FRIEDBERT HOLZ
Mauggen / Bockhorn
- “Three years ago we
sounded out
the community area because of the location for a cell phone tower - but nothing came up back then.
But now the Wasser Zweckverband Erding-Ost has offered to erect a radio mast on its site in Mauggen, about 30 meters high ”: Frank-Peter Käßler, who works for the Telekom as the municipal representative for mobile communications in Bavaria, started his review Information he presented to the local council and visitors in the school building.
Because some questions on the subject of mobile communications and radiation were expected from the population, the municipal administration had collected them and asked the experts to answer them.
Käßler said that a radio mast must be 30 meters high in order to be able to cover the relatively large and topographically difficult area of the community with a radio output between 700 and 2100 megahertz.
“There won't be a so-called bell directly under the mast in the Mauggen industrial park.
The reception there will then be much better than it is today. ”From this location, Käßler sees“ a good mobile network coverage for Bockhorn ”, in any case in voice mode up to the rear corners.
"In a somewhat critical situation, such as in Maierklopfen, it can happen that telephoning in the house is not easy." A mast must always be close to the building in order to achieve maximum transmission power - "Such a mast would be in the middle of the forest bring much less ”.
In addition to the new 5G system, the mast can continue to send in DSL and LTE formats, but not UMTS.
"In addition, the new structure would also be possible for the installation of antennas from other cell phone providers," said Käßler, who will not clarify such details until later contract negotiations.
It would take "around two to three years" to expand the mast and improve reception performance.
Public health concerns were raised at the event.
The mobile communications expert was able to refute most of them: “First of all, every system is tested by the Federal Network Agency to ensure that it is safe before it is put into operation.
Second, there are no false signals for potential medical devices, as some fear.
After all, every cell phone user exposes himself to four times more radiation from his device than from the mast, because he carries it much closer to his body and uses it more often. "
He did not want to go into the possible danger of 5G: "We at Telekom are only providers, not producers of the new mode".
And he gave clear information on the question from the local councilor Bernhard Stein (CSU) what would happen in the event of a rejection by the community.
“We do not conclude the contract with Bockhorn as a municipality, but with the water association (mayor Lorenz Angermaier recently became chairman, other councilors are also members; note by the author).
If there is no agreement, we may look for a location on private property.
If that fails too, there is no improvement in mobile communications for Bockhorn, ”Käßler clarified.
