RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATION LEVELS

Over the years, Nigeria has experienced a steady growth in the telecommunication industry, with over ten (10) mobile wireless telecommunication services providers, over fifteen thousand (15,000) Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) spreads across the country, and also over One Hundred and seventeen million lines actively connected. With this tremendous growth, the concern among Nigerians about the effects and possible health hazard of electromagnetic waves radiation from the BTS and the mobile handsets cannot be over emphasize. This study focuses on measurement of Electromagnetic waves Radiation (w/m2) radiated from Base Transceiver Stations (BTS). These measurements were carried out using the handheld GQ EMF 390 digital meter. Maximum radiation values were measured and recorded from (BTS) of a selected site in UNIBEN and the results were compared with the standard provided by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, ICNIRP, 1998 (4.5W/m2 for 900MHz and 9W/m2 for 18000MHz) and an agreement was obtained.