DocumentCode
3097212
Title
Cellular phones (base stations) and human health
Author
Talal, Mohammed
Author_Institution
HIAST, Damascus, Syria
fYear
2004
fDate
19-23 April 2004
Firstpage
47
Lastpage
48
Abstract
The paper studies mobile phone base stations which are low-power multichannel two-way radios. A mobile phone (cell phone) is a low-power, single-channel, two-way radio. When we talk on such a mobile phone, we (and perhaps dozens of other people around us) are talking to a nearby base station. From that base station our phone call goes into the regular land-line phone system. Because mobile phones and their base stations are two-way radios, they produce radio-frequency radiation (that´s how they communicate), and they expose people near them to radio-frequency (RF) radiation. However, because both the phones and the base stations are low power (short range), the RF radiation exposure levels from them are generally very low. It is also important to be aware that there are many different designs of mobile phone base stations that vary widely in their power, their characteristics, and their potential for exposing people to RF radiation.
Keywords
biological effects of microwaves; health hazards; mobile handsets; mobile radio; base station; cellular phone; human health hazards; land-line phone system; mobile phone; radio-frequency radiation; Base stations; Cellular phones; Chemicals; Electromagnetic radiation; Humans; Ionizing radiation; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Radio frequency; X-rays;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8482-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICTTA.2004.1307605
Filename
1307605
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