Special Report: Cell phones
Recent legal claims against employers who issue cell phones raise questions about corporate liability. How can you protect yourself?
Cell phone safety
Convinced that using the company-issued cell phones on the job caused his brain tumor, Mark Hart filed a workers' compensation claim. The Hart case and others like it, while human tragedies, raise serious issues for network and telecom executives.
Cell phone industry faces legal tests
Gibb Brower used a cell phone to help run his business from the road or on job sites for four years. He says his cell phones caused the growth of two tumors and a surrounding cancer field on the right side of his head where he held the phone.
Forum: Cell-phone risks
Discuss them with Dr. George Carlo, former director of the cellular industry's research effort on them.
Interesting facts and statistics
Find out how much power a cell phone uses, how many Americans use cell phones, and other useful info.
How workers' comp works
What to do if your employer issued cell phone damages your health.
FCC/FDA FAQ
Which agency handles what, how are they involved, and other important questions we have the answers to.
Patent filings raise questions
Even as major cell phone manufacturers argued that phones pose no health risks, the companies were filing patents for devices designed to protect users from radiation emitted by the phones.
Scientific studies are a mixed bag
Research into the safety of cellular phones has resulted in some studies that show no adverse effects, and others that raise questions.
Cell phone ratings are hard to come by
For network administrators looking to buy cellular phones that give off the least amount of radiation, comparing emission levels may not be an easy task.
Past Fusion articles:
Cell phone patents raise questions
Health risks once again at issue in light of technology patent review.
Network World, 06/15/01.
Cellphone suit will get its day in court
In ruling that could shake the cellphone industry, a federal judge let stand a lawsuit that says companies are making and selling cellphones with the knowledge that they may be dangerous.
IDG News Service, 01/19/01.
Study links mobile phone use with eye cancer
A German study purports to find a statistically significant link between a rare form of eye cancer and mobile telephone use.
Net.Worker, 01/16/01.
Cell phone use linked to brain cancer in new study
Users of mobile phones are at increased risk of developing brain tumors, especially if they use older analog phones.
Network World, 05/05/00.
Related links:
Official Web site of the Cell Telecommunications and Internet Association
FDA’s Consumer Update on mobil phones
Countil on Wireless Technology Impacts
Citizens and professionals concerned about the safe uses of electromagnetic radiation
Find here Britain’s report from their Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones
Study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Cell telephone use and brain tumors
Motorola’s information on health and safety
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