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Mobile phone masts to face public consultation
Talkback G technolgy is known to operate at much higher frequencies. I am representing WARM, Whitton Against Radiation Masts, and we are protesting against the erection of 3 new 3G masts on a site at the end of our children's school play ground.
[November 28, 2003, 10:49]
3G is dead, says mobile phone inventor
News Cooper's company is working on directional antennae which will offer users higher bandwidths than current 3G by reusing the same frequencies in different spaces around a base station. 3G has problems, according to Marty Cooper, and he should know...
[October 31, 2002, 14:53]
Researchers develop mobile phone cancer theory
News The research group, lead by radiation expert Dr Peter French, principal scientific officer at the Centre for Immunology Research at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, said that mobile phone frequencies well below current safety levels could stress...
[June 25, 2001, 16:00]
Mobile Phone Users: Another High Health Risk Group
White Papers The mobile (cellular/cell) phone combines the technology of the wireless communication with that of the telephone and uses specific frequencies called microwaves, a sub-set of radio waves with frequencies ranging from 300 MHz to 3GHz.
[May 12, 2006, 1:00]
GSM health risks won't be known for a decade
News GSM phones transmit using the 900MHz, 1800MHz -- and in America the 1900MHz -- frequencies. Scientists have proven that radio waves of these frequencies can generate significant electric fields within human cells.
[June 8, 2001, 13:11]
BT turns to fruit flies for network tips
News But with dozens of base stations, each broadcasting with six of the 29 available frequencies, the computational problem of deciding which base stations use which frequencies is a tough one. Which antennas use which frequencies would no longer be BT...
[April 15, 2002, 10:29]
Will Wi-Fi overwhelm satellite radio?
News Radio waves from different services have to coexist in the air, and while putting them on different frequencies keeps them separate it is impossible to completely eliminate spurious transmissions on adjacent frequencies from those allocated to a...
[April 8, 2002, 14:56]
New Filter for Mobile Phones in Flip Chip Package
White Papers In a mobile phone the keyboard matrix can behave as an antenna and receive unwanted RF frequencies emitted by the phone itself. The booming mobile phone market is demanding more and more new features and advanced services to be made available on...
[May 7, 2004, 0:00]
EC calls for 3G over 2G spectrum
News This development has reduced the demand for the lower frequencies, and some mobile operators have been arguing for some time that those spectrums should "refarmed" for 3G services. Those operators have pointed out that lower frequencies allow the...
[July 26, 2007, 13:26]
One in ten children ignore mobile guidelines
News The research group said that mobile phone frequencies well below current safety levels could stress cells in a way that has been shown to increase susceptibility to cancer. Latest research has found that one in ten children are ignoring safety...
[June 29, 2001, 11:29]
Government: Mobiles are safe
News They also suggest that the effects of radio frequencies on children may differ from those on adults, and they proposed extensions to the programme to investigate these two knowledge gaps. There is no link between short-term mobile-phone use and ill...
[September 14, 2007, 13:06]
Palm-based phone to hit Europe this summer
News The VisorPhone will work at the 900MHz and 1800MHz GSM frequencies. Handheld computer maker Handspring said yesterday that it will launch its hotly-anticipated mobile phone device, VisorPhone, for the European market by summer.
[February 22, 2001, 7:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As there's no band available at the moment for a mobile phone competitor, the incumbents have a free run — but there will be some more frequencies coming up for reuse shortly. The argument is simply stated: the mobile phone companies do not want...
[July 21, 2006, 19:15]
Orange takes stance in mobile TV standards war
News Since the frequencies used are adjacent to that already in use for voice and data the infrastructure engineering and network planning requirements are similarly reduced, IPWireless claims. IPWireless' TV standard, TDtv, uses existing but unused 3G...
[February 16, 2006, 11:25]
Government silent on Wi-Fi radiation claims
News Compared to mobile phone networks, Wi-Fi networks use much less power and operate at frequencies less able to penetrate the human body, two factors that reduce the likelihood of health effects on current evidence.
[November 29, 2006, 13:03]
A Year Ago: Airlines ban mobile phones, but why?
News There is no real connection between cell-phone frequencies and the frequencies of the navigation" or communications systems. Plane makers Boeing and Airbus Industrie have bombarded their aircraft with cell-phone frequencies and discovered no...
[October 6, 2000, 7:02]
Start-up crams single chip with phone, GPS and Bluetooth
News By creating highly isolated areas of the chip and very carefully arranging the internal frequencies that the chip uses, Ashvatta claims to have succeeded where other companies have tried and failed. Florida company Ashvattha Semiconductor claims to...
[March 22, 2002, 13:25]
Symbol mini wireless LAN card upstages Compaq
News Another example of a mobile application is the company's third new product -- an Internet phone which uses 802.11b instead of cellular frequencies. Symbol is also announcing, on Tuesday, a cellphone which uses LAN wireless frequencies, and new...
[May 8, 2001, 14:29]
NEC adds digital TV to cellphone
News Future expansion of the digital TV networks will improve reception to the point where portable TVs become feasible, but this may not happen until the frequencies currently used for analogue TV transmission are changed to digital standards.
[July 14, 2003, 14:32]
Programmable chip set to cut smartphone costs
News These slivers of frequencies are not contiguous across the US, which means devices will probably have to switch between different types of connection technologies and carrier networks. On Monday, Sandbridge plans to announce that its new baseband...
[November 11, 2008, 8:05]
