Workgroup report: base stations and wireless networks--radiofrequency (RF) exposures and health consequences.(Research)(Conference notes)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Radiofrequency (RF) waves have long been used for different types of information exchange via the airwaves--wireless Morse code, radio, television, and wireless telephony (i.e., construction and operation of telephones or telephonic systems). Increasingly larger numbers of people rely on mobile telephone technology, and health concerns about the associated RF exposure have been raised, particularly because the mobile phone handset operates in close proximity to the human body, and also because large numbers of base station antennas are required to provide widespread availability ...

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