12 Cell Phone Radiation Facts You Want To Know!

1. In Australia the number one disease among children is brain tumor and brain cancer… It just surpassed Leukemia

.2. Sperm count in adult males who use cell phones heavily are lowered by as much as 30%.

3. In Japan you aren’t allowed to use Cell Phones on the train due to 2nd hand radiation.

4. In England it is recommended that teenagers 16 and under refrain from unnecessary cell phone use.

5. None of the cell phone companies are insured … they are all self insured. Insurance companies have exclusion clauses against paying compensation for illnesses caused by continuous long-term low level radiation.

6. There are, at the moment, 7 state class action lawsuits, 10 brain cancer lawsuits, 2 workman’s comp lawsuits in California.

7. In new Verizon contracts in fine print -- upon signing the contract you agree not to sue the Cell Phone Maker or participate in a Class Action Lawsuit.

8. With 500 minutes of cell phone use per month you have a 300% increased probability of getting brain cancer.

9. There are 40,000 to 50,000 new cases of brain tumors and eye cancer per year attributed to cell phone use.

10. The average kid uses a cell phone 2600 minutes per month.

11. If the current trend continues there will be 500,000 new cases of tumors per year by the year 2010.

12. Disney Corporation, who 5 years ago turned down $2 million per year licensing fee for use of Disney Characters due to cell phone radiation safety concerns, recently signed a 2 billion contract with Sprint.

Mickey strides into wireless

Mickey strides into wireless By Kelly Hill Apr 6, 2006 LAS VEGAS—With fog, fireworks and a helping hand from Mickey Mouse, Disney Mobile announced the launch of its cellular service at yesterday’s CTIA keynote. Steve Wadsworth, president of the Disney Internet Group, joked that the towering on-stage model of the silver Pantech flip-phone that Disney Mobile will offer looked just like any other phone—and that, he added, was exactly what Disney Mobile wanted. Adults want high-quality phones, Wadsworth said, and the teens and tweens “don’t want a phone that looks like a kid’s phone.” Hence the co-branded Pantech DM-P100 phone, and the yet-to-come DM-L200 from LG Electronics Co. Ltd., with nary a mouse-ear logo in sight. Disney Mobile plans to start selling the phones and plans in June; the service will use Sprint Nextel Corp.’s CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network. Much of the unique functions of the service come in the form of controls for parents. Parents can parcel out monthly minute allowances for voice, text and picture messaging, and downloadable content, and use Disney Mobile’s “Family Center” to decide when children can and can’t use their phones. During certain days, school hours or prime homework time, Wadsworth noted, parents can disable most of the phone’s functions. However, children can always call a limited list of allowed numbers, such as parents and 911, whether the rest of the functions are disabled or they are over their minute allowance. The monthly minute allowance, Wadsworth said, would prevent problems such as unexpectedly large wireless bills due to text messaging or teenagers eating up a family’s monthly minutes. When a child reaches the end of his or her monthly minutes, an alert is sent to both the child and the parent in charge of managing the family’s service. Parents also can compose a list of prohibited numbers that the child is not allowed to call or text. The handset also offers a locator feature that uses embedded GPS capabilities. Parents can enter a personal identification number on their handset or at the Disney Mobile Web site and then the location, a map and an indication of accuracy shows them the approximate location of the child’s device. Families also can set up alert functions, and parental messages override the phone’s idle screen. Wadsworth noted that the device’s other functions, such as calling and data services, cannot be used until the message is acknowledged, preventing the “I didn’t get the message” excuse. The service includes unlimited messaging among family members. Wadsworth noted that a number of common messages, such as “Where RU?”, “Running late. Be there soon!” and “Can you get a ride?” are included in a list of preprogrammed messages so that parents, who may not be comfortable with text messaging, will find it easy to use. Disney Mobile did not reveal much about its service pricing plans, except to say that it will offer both individual and family plans, including child-only subscriptions which allow parents “to take advantage of all the Family Center features from the Web until they themselves can join Disney Mobile.” All plans will include the Family Center features, and consumers will be able to buy phones and service through Disney Mobile’s Web site and at dedicated mall kiosks. Handset prices will start at $60 with a two-year service agreement, Disney Mobile said. According to Disney Mobile’s Web site, the approximate retail value of the phones and service it is currently offering in a giveaway are $130 per handset and $80 per month for service. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Heavy cell phone users face a 240% increased risk of tumours' has been posted to EMFacts Consultancy

Swedish researchers find link between cell phones and brain tumors 3/31/2006 12:02:08 PM, by Nate Anderson

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060331-6502.html

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That's the message from the Swedish National Institute for Working Life, which has just completed a massive study on the cancer risks from cell phone use. Their results, which appear in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health (one of my favorite sources of light reading), suggests that heavy cell phone users do in fact raise their risk for tumors, especially on the side of the head they use most often.

The study looked at 2,200 cancer patients and the same number of healthy ones to see if any sort of connection could be drawn between specific cancers and heavy mobile phone usage. The answer was yes.

Kjell Mild, who led the study, said the figures meant that heavy users of mobile phones had a 240 percent increased risk of a malignant tumor on the side of the head the phone is used.

Now, before you reach behind your right ear and start probing yourself for lumps, there are a couple of things to remember. The first is that a 240 percent increase, while significant, still means that the chance of coming down with a tumor is rather low. The second thing is that "heavy usage" of cell phones is defined by the study as anything above 2,000 hours of use, which works out to one hour a day, every day, for almost six years. That's a lot of talking—but certainly not beyond the range of modern road warriors.

The study's authors suggest, as usual, that the best way to reduce your risk (short of ditching your phone altogether) is to use a hands-free system. One wonders, though, whether buying a headset and then shoving the phone in your pocket isn't likely to cause other, ahem, problems of equal severity.

It's also worth pointing out that research on the link between cancer and mobile phones is ambiguous. A recent British study found no such link only a few months ago, though a 2004 study came to the opposite conclusion. The Swedish team points out that their study is the largest done to date, though, so it may carry more authority than the rest.