Stephanie Weil wrote:
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That's your own personal feeling. I happen to agree, however by the time the radiation from the cell-phone base antennas reaches you, the levels are very low. It's the inverse-square law.
Cellphone tower repeaters are very low-powered, so as they do not interfere with others in the same network. Also, lots of them are needed so that your cellphone can communicate with the tower at a safe enough power level without frying your head. If you had less towers, you'd need more powerful transmitters inside the cellphones (remember the "bag phones" of the 70s and 80s?).
My 2-meter walkie-talkie amateur radio tranceiver sends out five watts of power to communicate with nearby repeaters. Ditto the police-band walkie talkies that cops use. Those have WAY more power than a cellphone would ever need.
http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/index.htm

This is the BioIniative Report. This is a report put together by scientists, researchers, and public health policy professionals. They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMFs is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and other sources of EMF exposure in daily life. The report concludes the existing standards for public safety are inadequate to protect public health.