MORRO SOLAR LIMA ANTENNAS FM TV

Over the past few years, telecommunication services in Peru have grown considerably. According to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones—MTC) and the Organization Overseeing Private-Sector Investment in Telecommunications (Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones—OSIPTEL), in terms of amount of infrastructure and number of beneficiaries, nationwide the principal services consist of AM-OM radio, with 644 broadcasting stations, FM radio with 1,686 broadcasting stations, television with 1,110 broadcasting stations. Many of stations in Lima are sited in Morro Solar.

This growth has triggered concern about the electromagnetic fields used for wireless transmission. Because of this, the National Telecommunication Research and Training Institute (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Capacitación en Telecomunicaciones—INICTEL) has been conducting research on various aspects of electromagnetic non-ionizing emissions in telecommunications.