Senate Warns FG Towards Hasty Deployment Of 5G Network
The Senate has advised the Federal Government to withhold the deployment of the fifth era (5G) network for the time being pending when the learn about of the fashion of its deployment throughout the world can be ascertained.
This accompanied the consideration and adoption of the record of the joint Senate Committee on Communications, Science and Technology, ICT, Cyber Crime and Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases on the “Status of 5G network in Nigeria and its affect in Nigerian citizens.”
The Senate had on the fifth of May, 2020 following a action by using Senator Uche Ekwunife (PDP, Anambra Central) mandated the Joint Committee to behavior an investigation into “the Status of 5G network in Nigeria and its technological influence on Nigerian citizens”.
Although the higher legislative chamber should now not set up any proof linking 5G science to Covid-19, it ordered the MNOs to halt their plans to installation 5G network in the subsequent six months to habits scientific lookup to verify whether or not or now not there is any connection between 5G community and public health.
The committee advocated that Nigeria ought to nevertheless have a look at the vogue of 5G deployment round the globe and have interaction in full-size sensitization of the public via all channels earlier than the graduation of industrial deployments in the country.