cellular base stations
Other RF sources in the community: Paging and other communications antennae such as those used by fire, police and emergency services, operate at similar power levels as cellular base stations, and often at a similar frequency. In many urban areas television and radio broadcast antennae commonly transmit higher RF levels than do mobile base stations.
Health effects
RF fields penetrate exposed tissues to depths that depend on the frequency - up to a centimetre at …
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Further reading
IEGMP (2000) Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones, Mobile Phones and Health, National Radiological Protection Board (UK) 2000. See http://www.iegmp.org.uk/IEGMPtxt.htm
Royal Society of Canada (1999). A review of the potential health risks of radiofrequency fields from wireless telecommunications devices. Expert panel report prepared by the Royal Society of Canada for Health Canada. Ottawa, Royal Society of Canada, RSC.EPR 99-1.
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