Wireless technologies environmental impacts

It is not difficult to understand that telecommunication technologies can provide comfort as well as improve the quality of our everyday life. What isn´t so evident are the environmental impacts of such developments. While telecommunication technologies are still seen as ¿clean technologies¿, they can have some harmful impacts on the environment, many of which have been identified and the protection measures included in national and international laws and standards, while other are still under investigation. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze some impacts of the wireless systems on people life on Earth, such as electromagnetic radiation and impacts on visual landscape of cities. This work could serve as a warning to agencies and institutions involved in the process and assist in decision making in the fields of engineering and standards, thus helping to give greater environmental sustainability to the existing and future telecommunication systems.