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General Comments...: Do they cause cancer? (748 words)
by El-Presidente - written on 17.02.01 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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What is it all about then? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The controversy involving the use of mobile phones may affect our lives in the days to come. The questions we should be asking ourselves should be “are we in any eminent danger”? In 1999, the U. S Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made a statement, which is as follows: “The scientific evidence does not allows us to conclude that mobile phones are absolutely safe… or that they are unsafe”. Hmm, despite the amount of research that FDA has conducted, they still have not come up with anything concrete. The first lawsuit against a mobile phone ...

Power to the People! (1068 words)
by nicola21 - written on 05.04.01 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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Mobile telecommunication. Just a few decades ago, this concept was beyond imagination. But since its release about ten years ago, these little mobile phones have become an essential everyday item. Just like your toothbrush or your car. What would we all do without them now? Most of us would manage, but they're a luxury that nowadays most of us can afford and they have fitted very nicely into our lives. We have watched mobiles evolve before our very eyes and it's all happened incredibly quickly. From the original Motorola "brick" mobile that weighed the equivelent of a bag of sugar, took up half the room in your bag and definitely wouldn't ...

General Comments...: Would you like me to tell you where you can stick your netwo ... (1079 words)
by Johnny Phoenix - written on 14.10.02 (Very useful, 133 readings)
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Once upon a time in a crime ridden seaside town there lived a man. He tried his best to be a good man and was content to try and live a happy life - providing for his family and trying his best to keep them safe from harm. For this reason, he thought that his teenage soon-to-be stepdaughter should have the mobile phone she wanted as it would enable her to ring someone in an emergency and talk to her friends without tying up the house phone for eons and eons and eons. The mobile networks know that this practice is done but since anyone under the age of 18 cannot enter into a legally binding contract, a parent invariably has to take out this contract ...