“Not an RF engineer, but I believe it’s safer to be further away from the base station, as i recall the power is inverse proportional to the distance squared.”
Indeed it is in free space. Assuming the input transmission power provided to the antenna is held constant.
It is so with radio and TV, which emit thousands of watts.
The point is that cell phones are different in fundamental ways: there is two way, not one way communication, both transmitters continuously adjust their emitted physical power over a very wide range to compensate for the distance between the two (this is not widely appreciated or understood), and the transmitter near your head is the most hazardous one.
