The ever-growing mobile phone traffic and the rapidly increased use of mobile wireless Internet connections have all but paralysed the scatter radar system used in Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland as part of the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) programme, which studies the interaction between the sun and the earth as revealed by upper atmosphere disturbances, such as the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis). The radar operates at the UHF frequency of 930 MHz, which has now been adopted by a mobile phone operator. Read More
