Cell Tower Radiation and Effect on Human Body: Bangladesh Perspective

Recently a trend is being seen in Bangladesh that Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) are being built at highly populated areas without any analysis of their possible radiation hazards. A calculation based analysis of possible radiation hazard caused by these BTS antennas is presented in this paper. Important data are being collected from antenna specification data sheets provided by antenna manufacturing companies. Based on the collected data, Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) on human body at different distances from BTS is being calculated. Finally, different safety ranges for humans from BTS for different antenna types used in BTS are proposed.