The WiMax RF health risks and effects of cellular transmissions are unlikely to have much risk on humanoids within range of the masts.

WiMAX Masts Pose No Health Risks
Intel's mobility guru Sean Maloney said that masts beaming WiMax signal across metropolis do not pose risk to health.

But Intel takes the WiMax RF health risk seriously, said Maloney, and continues to closely watch research on the effects of radio emissions.

The successful implementation of WiMax would require masts to be set up as relay stations, much as cellular masts are pretty much omnipresent, Maloney said. But the effects of such transmissions were unlikely to have much WiMax RF health risk on humanoids within range. He said that since concerns were first raised about cellular transmissions, not one case of them having any effect on human tissue had been proven.

WiMax or wireless DSL as the first implementation will be called - will likely be rolled out worldwide over the next few years, with several hundred companies participating in the study. Intel will make money out of selling silicon, said Maloney. That's not just the silicon that will be in boxes used to transmit the signals, but through more sales of notebooks able to use WiMax.

The problem is that if you have a notebook there are virtual deserts even in larger cities such as London, unless you hop around from pub to pub, or from coffee bar to coffee bar, or from burger joint to burger joint.

Wireless DSL is also expected to bring broadband to rural areas, and Intel suggest that they should be incorporated in a network of aesthetically designed windmills across the country. Disguising the masts as fake trees fool no-one, not even pigeons.