🇦🇹 Interview: Vienna Cell Tower Guidelines More Relevant Than Ever, Says Co-Author

May 23, 2026 (EMFS)

May 21, 2026 (original)

Source: diagnose:funk

Source category: Advocacy/NGO

diagnose:funk interviews Prof. Wilhelm Mosgöller, co-author of the Vienna Cell Tower Construction Guidelines (Leitfaden Senderbau), which proposes a planning target of 1,000 µW/m² — a thousand times below the ICNIRP limit. Mosgöller argues that ICNIRP guidelines only protect against thermal effects and that non-thermal effects of RF-EMF have sufficient evidence to warrant precautionary strategies.

Quotes (our translation)

"Why is nobody talking about alternative protection concepts?"

[original: "Warum spricht niemand über alternative Schutzkonzepte?"]

— Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Mosgöller (interview with diagnose:funk)

"There is now sufficient evidence for non-thermal effects; what remains open is the effect threshold, which is needed as a prerequisite for setting new exposure limits."

[original: "Mittlerweile gibt es hinreichend Evidenz zu nicht-thermischen Wirkungen, offen ist die Wirkschwelle, sie wird aber gebraucht als Voraussetzung für eine neue Grenzwert-Festlegung."]

— Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Mosgöller (interview with diagnose:funk)

"When residents' interests are systematically ignored, and blind trust in exposure limits primarily serves the investment security of network operators, something has already gone seriously wrong."

[original: "Wenn Anrainer-Interessen systematisch ausgeblendet werden, und das blinde Vertrauen in die Grenzwerte zuallererst der Investitionssicherheit der Netz-Betreiber dient, ist schon einiges schiefgelaufen."]

— Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Mosgöller (interview with diagnose:funk)

Source

Interview mit Prof. W. Mosgöller: Leitfaden Senderbau – aktueller denn je diagnose-funk.org