There has been a lot of controversy over Wi-Fi in schools in the UK lately, with the BBC’s Panorma program doing an “expose� about the possible health dangers of school Wi-Fi networks on children. As you would expect, Panorma has been attacked for scaremongering, but now one of the key experts used by the program has come out to defend some of the more controversial contentions of the program. Researchers for the BBC’s Panorama program visited a comprehensive school in Norwich and measured the strength of a radiation signal from a classroom Wi-Fi laptop. They found that the maximum signal strength was three times higher than that of a typical mobile phone mast 100 m away. The program contended that there is research that links “radiation� from mobiles to cancer and brain damage, and that children are thought to be more vulnerable than adults.

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