Cellular phones (base stations) and human health

摘要

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.