• 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