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Article: Japanese Mobile Phone Operators Find No Adverse Health Effects from Base Station Radio Waves.
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- JCN Newswires
- Article date:
- January 24, 2007
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Tokyo, Japan, Jan 24, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - Japan's mobile phone operators, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., KDDI Corporation and SoftBank Mobile Corporation have confirmed that radio frequency energy from mobile phone base stations does not cause damage to human cells in vitro studies.
Since November 2002, the companies have been collaborating to examine the effects of radio waves. As part of the collaboration, large-scale experiments have been conducted on the cellular and genetic level using radio waves up to 10 times stronger than the limit set forth in radio frequency radiation protection guidelines for base stations. In an interim report on April 26, 2005, the companies ...