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Could your next mobile phone wreck our weather forecasts?

Noted: “It’s like an apartment building of sorts,” explains Jordan Gerth, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “There’s some general expectation that everybody keeps relatively quiet. In the spectrum land, we have our meteorological application, our science applications, and those that require a very quiet environment and [quiet] adjacent environment. But the telecom signals are typically very loud, and are also susceptible to leaking outside their space.