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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!troyf
- From: troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks)
- Subject: Re: Cellular telephones and brain tumors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.220136.26429@microware.com>
- Sender: news@microware.com
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- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- References: <DRAND.93Jan5111703@spinner.osf.org> <1993Jan5.173232.4856@netcom.com> <1993Jan6.150344.23927@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:01:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.150344.23927@news.acns.nwu.edu> dougb@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Douglas Bank) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.173232.4856@netcom.com> kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio) writes:
- >
- >>You must not have read the post -- it refers to the hand-held variety
- >>of cellular phone -- which has a max. power output of 1.3 W The very
- >>reason for the reduced power output (from the 3 Watt max. of the non-
- >>handheld variety) was because of the evidence that supports a causal
- >>link between the devices and brain tumors. But even a very superficial
- >
- >Wrong!!!
- >
- >The reason for the reduced power is so that they don't kill the
- >battery in 5 minutes.
- >
- >
- I believe the FCC could care less about battery life.
- I use my OKI-900 about three minutes per month.
- One would wonder how much this person used their phone if they are
- claiming tumors in the 18 months or so that hand helds have been
- available. Does anyone know if this person was a teenager?
-