1st Cellphone Radiation Law

Release Date ‎Jul 21, 2011‎ in Mobile Magazine

 
   

AT&T U-Verse Boxes Approved By San Francisco Board Of Supervisors

Huffington Post - ‎Jul 21, 2011‎
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors approved a proposal allowing AT&T to install hundreds of utility boxes on San Francisco sidewalks without first undergoing an environmental impact study. There are few things people in San Francisco get testier ...

San Francisco set to require cellphone radiation warnings

Los Angeles Times - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
Are cellphone rays harmful? It seems like every few months, another study comes out weighing in on the debate. As soon as one important health organization declares phones are "possibly carcinogenic," another important-sounding medical journal pops up ...

San Francisco Gives Cell-Phone Radiation Law Another Try

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a bill that would require a warning at stores that sell cell phones about the possible hazards of cell-phone radiation. Last June, the City of San Francisco tentatively approved a bill ...

AT&T's U-verse: SF battle over boxes far from over

San Francisco Chronicle - Andrew S. Ross - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
As former Mayor Gavin Newsom said apropos gay marriage, AT&T's high-speed U-verse service is coming to San Francisco, "whether you like it or not." Having squeaked through the Board of Supervisors on a 6-5 vote Tuesday, the long-delayed project begins ...

SF Lets AT&T Move Ahead With U-Verse

PCWorld - Stephen Lawson - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors let AT&T move forward with deploying its U-Verse TV and broadband service and revived a troubled cell-phone health warning law at its meeting on Tuesday. The city has clashed with ...

AT&T wins approval for S.F. utility boxes

San Francisco Chronicle - Rachel Gordon - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
After years of wrangling at City Hall, AT&T got the go-ahead from a split Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to place hundreds of utility boxes on city sidewalks and alleyways without first having to undergo a lengthy and costly environmental analysis. ...

SF tries again with cell phone radiation law

CNET (blog) - Kent German - ‎Jul 18, 2011‎
Almost three months after it shelved a controversial cell phone radiation law, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is keeping the issue alive, but adopting a different strategy for doing so. At its meeting tomorrow, the board will ...

San Francisco moves to require cellphone warnings

The Hill (blog) - Brendan Sasso - ‎Jul 21, 2011‎
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance Tuesday to require retailers to warn consumers about the dangers of cellphone radiation. The measure cited recent studies showing that cellphone use ...

1st Cellphone Radiation Law

Mobile Magazine - Silvia Pikal - ‎Jul 21, 2011‎
San Francisco is taking the potential threat of cellphone radiation seriously. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to approve legislation that would require retailers to educate ...

San Francisco makes move toward cell phone radiation law (again)

Digitaltrends.com - ‎Jul 21, 2011‎
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has taken a step toward introducing a law that will require cell phone retailers to provide consumers with information regarding radiation risks. It seems somewhat remarkable that after years of studies on cell ...

Prepare Yourselves for AT&T Cable TV Service, New Obstacles on the Sidewalk

SFist - Andrew Dalton - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
After taking years to approve an alternative to Comcast's monopoly on crap cable TV and Internet service, the Board of Supervisors finally approved AT&T's Lightspeed network expansion yesterday. Meaning we'll soon have a new choice when selecting which ...

San Francisco moves to mandate radiation warnings on phones

RCR Wireless News Silicon Valley - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
The City of San Francisco will on Thursday hold a vote on whether to implement a controversial law which would make it mandatory for phone retailers to warn people about cellular radiation. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors already won unanimous ...

San Francisco Passes Law Requiring Radiation Warnings For Cell Phones

TechCrunch - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
Greg Kumparak is the editor of MobileCrunch.com, a mobile industry blog within the TechCrunch Network. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born in the outskirts of San Jose, CA, and now lives in the East Bay. ...

Supes Say Yes to Boxes

Curbed SF (blog) - Philip Ferrato - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
The supervisors fell victim to AT&T's bluster... So said Milo Hanke of SF Beautiful, which led the fight against AT&T's exemption from an EIR to install hundreds of boxes on sidewalks to provide U-Verse service. Supes approved the exemption yesterday ...

San Francisco Unanimously Upholds Cell Phone Radiation 'Right to Know' Law ...

CisionWire (press release) - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
With strong support from Environmental Health Trust and other public health experts, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted today 11-0 to improve and strengthen the nation's first cell phone radiation law, in spite of legal intimidation and ...

San Francisco passes cellphone radiation law

abc7news.com - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Cellphone companies will have to start giving customers in San Francisco more information about the possible dangers of radiation. Tuesday afternoon, the Board of Supervisors passed a law that requires cellphone makers to include ...

AT&T gains approval for new boxes in San Francisco

San Francisco Examiner - Joshua Sabatini - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
A plan to allow AT&T to install hundreds of 4-foot-high boxes around The City was approved Tuesday. Persistence paid off for AT&T on Tuesday after a plan to install hundreds of 4-foot-high boxes around The City was approved. ...

San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law

The Bay Citizen - Stephanie Sara Chong - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
By Hadley Robinson By Zusha Elinson By Bay City News Service By Scott James By Elizabeth Lesly Stevens By Katharine Mieszkowski By Scott James By Aaron Glantz By Stephanie Sara Chong on July 19, 2011 - 9:31 pm PDT San Francisco ...

SF Supes Approve AT&T Plan to Install Cable Boxes

The Bay Citizen (blog) - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
By Bay City News Service|July 19, 2011 9:10 pm |In Technology After months of wrangling between AT&T and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the board narrowly approved today allowing the company to upgrade its network by installing hundreds of ...

After Years of Delay, AT&T's Lightspeed Cable/Internet Service, Utility ...

The San Francisco Appeal - Chris Roberts - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
Construction on the first box -- on La Playa in the Outer Richmond near the Fulton Street Safeway -- will begin Wednesday, according to Marc Blakeman, AT&T's vice president of external affairs. AT&T had since 2006 sought to build ...

U-verse sidewalk boxes get SF go-ahead without more study

Bizjournals.com (blog) - Patrick Hoge - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
San Francisco supervisors say AT&T will not have to do an environmental impact report on its plan to put up to 726 metal utility boxes on sidewalks and other public property in its effort to build a fiber-optic network in San Francisco to deliver ...

Supes to vote on future of AT&T utility boxes

KGO-TV - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There was a major victory for AT&T in San Francisco Tuesday as the Board of Supervisors approved in a 6-5 vote the utility's plan to install hundreds of four-foot tall utility boxes throughout the city. ...

San Francisco Tries to Pass Phone Radiation Law, Again

Mobiledia - Sandy Fitzgerald - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
San Francisco officials today will vote on a revamped law requiring cell phone retailers to tell consumers about radiation levels in the devices, with the debate around the law encapsulating current ...

San Francisco adopts new cell phone radiation law

MyBroadband - ‎Jul 19, 2011‎
MyBroadband's Staff Writer is directly plugged into the South African Internet backbone, and spits out press releases and other news as he receives it. ... The city board of supervisors are to vote on amended legislation that could see retailers ...

SF tries again with cell phone radiaiton law

Wireless Week - ‎Jul 18, 2011‎
By CNET Monday, July 18, 2011 Almost three months after it shelved a controversial cell phone radiation law, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is keeping the issue alive, but adopting a different strategy for doing so. At its meeting tomorrow, ...

San Francisco Passes Law Requiring Radiation Warnings For Cell Phones

Washington Post - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
By TechCrunch.com, Back and forth it goes, like the world's slowest game of tennis. One study spends 6 months proving that cell phones turn you into a giant walking tumor, and another pops up showing that cell phones cause nothing but an increased need ...

SF Lets AT&T Move Ahead with U-Verse

CIO - Stephen Lawson - ‎Jul 20, 2011‎
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors let AT&T move forward with deploying its U-Verse TV and broadband service and revived a troubled cell-phone health warning law at its meeting on Tuesday. By Stephen Lawson IDG News Service â€" The San Francisco ...

San Francisco tries again on cell phone radiation warning law

CNN - Amy Gahran - ‎Jul 21, 2011‎
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors wants to require cell phone retailers to give buyers information about phone emissions. Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area ...

 

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