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The FCC also regulates the base stations that the

 

wireless phone networks rely upon. While these base

 

stations operate at higher power than do the wireless

 

phones themselves, the RF exposures that people get

 

from these base stations are typically thousands of

 

times lower than those they can get from wireless

 

phones. Base stations are thus not the subject of the

 

safety questions discussed in this document.

 

3. What kinds of phones are the subject of this

 

update?

 

The term “wireless phone” refers here to handheld

 

wireless phones with built-in antennas, often called

 

“cell”, “mobile”, or “PCS” phones. These types of

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wireless phones can expose the user to measurable

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radiofrequency energy (RF) because of the short

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distance between the phone and the user’s head.

 

These RF exposures are limited by FCC safety

 

guidelines that were developed with the advice of the

 

FDA and other federal health and safety agencies.

 

When the phone is located at greater distances from

 

the user, the exposure to RF is drastically lower

 

because a person's RF exposure decreases rapidly

 

with increasing distance from the source. The

 

socalled “cordless phones,” which have a base unit

connected to the telephone wiring in a house, typically operate at far lower power levels, and thus produce RF exposures far below the FCC safety limits.

4.What are the results of the research done already?

The research done thus far has produced conflicting results, and many studies have suffered from flaws in their research methods. Animal experiments investigating the effects of radiofrequency energy (RF) exposures characteristic of wireless phones have yielded conflicting results that often cannot be repeated in other laboratories. A few animal studies, however, have suggested that low levels of RF could accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory animals. However, many of the studies that showed increased tumor development used animals that had been genetically engineered or treated with cancer-causing chemicals so as to be pre-disposed to develop cancer in the absence of RF exposure. Other studies exposed the animals to RF for up to 22 hours per day. These conditions are not similar to the conditions under which people use wireless phones, so we don’t know with certainty what the results of

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