I agree if you’re talking about microwave radars and the more extreme ULF/VLF/LF arrays but they are running kW power levels, but surely not the mW you get from a 4G router? By definition, a 4G router cannot transmit any more power than a mobile phone.
Wasn't trying to say they are comparable but there is hard science for the nature of how electromagnetic radiation works in terms of power and distance so if you are beyond a fairly short distance from the antenna (assuming it isn't a focussed beam) you are going to be exposed to atleast background levels anyway so banning 4G from your house, etc. doesn't really make any odds though I still wouldn't advise spending too much time in very close proximity to active sources - a WiFi router or 4G router will typically be more active than a mobile phone which will largely just be sending keep alive pulses when not in use for a call, etc.
As a precaution I wouldn't place a router within 1-2 metres of where my child was sleeping every night, etc. but I wouldn't worry about it if it was in the next room and so on.
5G will be a game-changer, just not the way the telco’s are selling it. It absolutely will wipe out Openreach’s pathetic 76-200Mbps service and areas that it would never have been viable to have Gigabit fibre installed will get Gigabit speeds from 5G and an external antenna.
The first time I ever logged in to the OcUK forums I was using a bonded 128kbps ISDN connection that cost £100/month because that was quite literally the fastest connection available on a domestic property at the time. At home now I have 330Mbps that costs me £80/month (don’t ask about the FTTP on demand install charge) but there remain plenty of UK homes who are stuck on sub-5Mbps phone lines and for them, 5G will be the answer.
Fixed connections still have significant advantages for stable latency even over 5G and even with comparable speeds and latency they need to improve the architecture generally if more people are using it as a replacement for wired broadband. Something I find amusing though - I've a 1.2KM FTTC line supposedly rated for 35-37 down, 5-7 up but struggles to get more than 24 down 1.1 up
(which is LOL after having multiple full speed fibre for the last few years) but with 4G despite the masts being 2.5KM away with a hill blocking line of sight I get a pretty solid 30 down, 10 (sometimes as high as 14) up and stable latency.