ABSTRACT: Human needs may be difficult to attain when there are no means of communication among them. Languages, therefore, have been age long means of communicating among human beings. They are used to easily send messages to persons who are physically present and understand these languages. Where a person to whom a message is to be passed is not physically present, the message is sent through another person who takes the message and delivers the same to him physically. The delay and inefficiency associated with primordial ways of communicating with a person at a distance necessitated the need to devise a means by which the person in the distant place can be instantly communicated with as if he is present. One of such newly devised ways is known as Telecommunication (Telecom). Telecom makes use of radiofrequencies and microwaves to enable people at different places communicate easily. To ensure clearer reception of signal from one end to another, mast stations are installed and put in place. This equipment causes some health and environmental challenge; this paper therefore recommends some steps to avoid these challenges.
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