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Federal Communications Commission (FCC). All
phones that are sold in the United States must
comply 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 the wireless phones do
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 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
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