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Safety
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 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
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
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to measurable radiofrequency
energy (RF) 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.