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with FCC safety guidelines that limit RF exposure. The FCC relies on the FDA and other health agencies for safety questions about wireless phones.

 

 

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

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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

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here to handheld wireless phones

with built-in antennas, often

 

 

called “cell”, “mobile”, or “PCS”

phones. These types of wireless phones can expose the user to measurable Radio Frequency (RF) energy because of the short 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 so-called “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

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