December, 2010
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Increasingly, mobile telephones are becoming pocket-sized and are being left in
the shirt pocket with a connection to the ear for hands-free operation. We have
considered an anatomic model of the chest and a planar phantom recommended
by US FCC to compare the peak 1 and 10 g SARs for four typical cellular
telephones, two each at 835 and 1900 MHz. An agreement within
±10% is obtained between calculated and experimental 1 and 10 g SARs for various
separations (2–8 mm) from the planar phantom used to represent different
thicknesses of the clothing both for the antenna away from or turned back
towards the body. Because of the closer placement of the antennas relative to
the body, the peak 1 and 10 g SARs are considerably higher (by a factor of
2–7) for pocket-mounted telephones as compared to the SARs obtained using
a 6 mm thick plastic ear head model—a procedure presently accepted both in
the US and Europe. This implies that a telephone tested for SAR compliance
against the model of the head may be severely out of compliance if it were
placed in the shirt pocket.
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The shift toward cell phones and away from landlines is having a wide impact, changing not only how people communicate but the telecommunications industry and the work of pollsters and others who collect data.
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December 20, 2010
“Despite what the mobile phone lobby continues to tell us, all those studies have one thing in common. The issue of whether mobile phone use increases the risk of brain cancers remains open. The link between phones and cancer may turn out to be like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in the case of which our original fears did not come to fruition, or it may turn out to be like the link between tobacco and lung cancer. The truth is that we simply do not know. Further independent research over a longer period is needed. At this point I must issue a statistics health warning. Matt Parker has implored me to make it clear that we will never reach the point of saying, “Mobile phones do not cause cancer”; there will merely be more and more studies showing that there is no reason to believe that they do not.”
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Without my iPhone, I’d find it hard to function, to stay in touch with my constituents and check the latest developments in Westminster on the move. Colleagues always joke that my mobile is glued to my ear. And, yes, I’ve even been known to use it in the bath.
But what does all that talk-time do to your health? Or carrying a phone next to your body for 18 hours a day?
The scientific jury is still out on whether those powerful micro-waves may be causing long-term damage. Thousands of studies have already been published on the subject, especially into the links between brain cancer and radiation. Yet the vast majority have proved inconclusive. Only last year, the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer said further work was crucial into the long-term “heavy” use of mobile phones.
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The Food and Drug Administration says the “weight of scientific evidence has not linked cell phones with any health problems,” including brain tumors from the low-level radiation that phones emit in normal use. Yet in the past year San Francisco lawmakers have enacted an ordinance requiring that cell phones disclose the amount of radiation emitted, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) announced plans to push for radiation warnings on all cell phones.
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“It’s time to start demanding safer cell phones from manufacturers and higher safety standards from U.S. regulators – not to try and remove them from society,” says Devra Davis, Ph.D., former epidemiology professor at University of Pittsburgh and author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family (Penguin Group).
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Mobile phones (also known as cellular or cellphones) allow communication from any location via a network of base stations. The information is transmitted from the mobile phone to the base station and vice versa via high-frequency electromagnetic fields.
Radiation intensity is greatest close to its source, i.e. a mobile phone’s antenna. The radiation is only strong while the phone is transmitting, not while it is in idle state. The radiation decreases sharply with distance to the phone.
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As with any new technology, when cell phones were first introduced several decades ago, consumers and researchers worried they might pose some health risks. Through the years, the focus has been primarily on the impact of radiation emitted from the cell phone’s antenna as it transmits a wireless signal. Yet, after hundreds of studies have been published looking into the risks of this radiation, the verdict remains the same: Either cell phones will kill us or they won’t.
Read more: http://www.mainstreet.com/article/smart-spending/technology/real-risks-cell-phone-radiation?page=1
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Local residents have the right to oppose land permit applications for the construction of cell phone towers, said the Eastern District Court of Virginia in Alexandria last month.
On November 10th the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria upheld a decision by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to prevent construction of a cell phone tower at the Masonic Lodge on Fort Hunt Road. Cingular appealed the decision to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond last week.
Read more: http://forthunt.patch.com/articles/court-supports-fort-hunt-residents-right-to-oppose-cell-phone-tower
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