Safety

developed by scientific and engineering experts drawn from industry, government, and academia after extensive reviews of the scientific literature related to the biological effects of RF energy.

 

 

The exposure Limit for wireless

 

 

mobile phones employs a unit of

 

 

measurement known as the

 

 

Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR.

 

 

The SAR is a measure of the rate

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of absorption of RF energy by

the human body expressed in

 

 

units of watts per kilogram

 

 

(W/kg). The FCC requires

 

 

wireless phones to comply with a

 

 

safety limit of 1.6 watts per

 

 

kilogram (1.6 W/kg). The FCC

 

 

exposure limit incorporates a

 

 

substantial margin of safety to

 

 

give additional protection to the

 

 

public and to account for any

 

 

variations in measurements.

Tests for SAR are conducted using standard operating positions specified by the FCC with the phone transmitting at its highest certified power level in all tested frequency bands. Although SAR is determined at the highest certified power level, the actual SAR level of the phone while operating can be well below the maximum value. Because the phone is designed to operate at multiple power levels to use only the power required to reach the network, in general, the closer you are to a wireless base station antenna, the lower the power output.

Before a phone model is available for sale to the public, it must be tested and certified to the FCC that it does not exceed the limit established by the government- adopted requirement for safe exposure. The tests are

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