Should I buy house with mobile phone mast at end of garden?!

Grenage

Will you be staying there for a long time?

If so, enjoy the reduced price and knowledge that there is no evidence of mobile phone masts being detrimental to your health. Lower price due to the ignorance of the masses; score!

If not, accept that you may have issues when reselling - or you may not.

chris_m

AdrianC wrote: »

and on the other there are paranoids who regard massive scientific consensus as evidence of a conspiracy theory.

Yet are perfectly happy to clamp a [STRIKE]mobile phone[/STRIKE] radiation emitter close to their brain for a not insignificant proportion of the day.

AdrianC

Of course, even if you buy a house without a mast nearby, that doesn't mean that - in a few years time - you'll be selling a house without a mast nearby. A mast could easily be installed. Or that one could be relocated elsewhere.

And, if you are worried enough about the "health risks" to move somewhere without a mast nearby, with a poor mobile signal, how do you know that next door won't have a small base station installed in their house...?

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Miss_Samantha

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Not quite Happy - I'm imagining that what bees don't like is something along the lines of the "signals" confusing their internal "radar" system and they don't know which way to fly.

That sounds feasible to me.

Perhaps, but how would that impact us?
In every studies 100% of fish die when taken out of their water tank, yet we seem to manage.

MoneysavingNewbie

The thing that everyone forgets when going nuts about phone masts, is that's it's BETTER to have a phone mast nearby, as when you put your phone to your head, or keep it is your pocket, the phone will be in low power mode. If your mast is further away, your phone will have ramped up it's TX/RX power.

I would rather have a nearby mast, and a phone next to my nuts that's on low power, than a phone mast that's far away and my phone frying them...

Derboy

It would be a plus for me. Best mobile reception ever!

HappyMJ

Derboy wrote: »

It would be a plus for me. Best mobile reception ever!

I'm waiting for the day that unlimited data tariffs on 4G become cheaper than a landline. I can see the mobile mast outside of my windows. Speeds on 4G are twice that of my ADSL connection. Upload speeds are 10 times faster than ADSL.

However, the cost of a 4G data tariff is two to three times that of the line rental and broadband cost and is severely limited on data usage.

Derboy

HappyMJ wrote: »

I'm waiting for the day that unlimited data tariffs on 4G become cheaper than a landline. I can see the mobile mast outside of my windows. Speeds on 4G are twice that of my ADSL connection. Upload speeds are 10 times faster than ADSL.

However, the cost of a 4G data tariff is two to three times that of the line rental and broadband cost and is severely limited on data usage.

Same here. ADSL at my current address is around 1.5mb. Terrible!

silvercar

MoneysavingNewbie wrote: »

The thing that everyone forgets when going nuts about phone masts, is that's it's BETTER to have a phone mast nearby, as when you put your phone to your head, or keep it is your pocket, the phone will be in low power mode. If your mast is further away, your phone will have ramped up it's TX/RX power.

I would rather have a nearby mast, and a phone next to my nuts that's on low power, than a phone mast that's far away and my phone frying them...

No because if you are in your home you are using the landline.

On the other hand a bee-free garden is attractive.

ElsieMonkey

Whatever the science is regarding these things (personally I'll take government assurances about anything with a pinch of salt - opinions change/they have a vested interest etc.), as someone earlier pointed out, the stigma is enough, so as a result I wouldn't want one at the end of my garden, so I'm not even going to bother viewing the house. I appreciate these things can pop up anywhere and everywhere, and you can't do much to avoid them, but as most things in life, if it's out of site it's out of mind (but in this case it would be staring me in the face from the end of my garden every day)!

Thanks everyone for your opinions, been very helpful.