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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (2430)	9/28/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

It's interesting... this internal antenna actually directs the radiation away from the head when you use it, so even the minuscule exposure coming from ordinary phones gets cut. Of course none of the manufacturers admit that this is why they are adopting the technology. There is market research showing that the number one complaint women have about phones is that the antennas snag with stuff in their purses, so there's also an innocuous reason for switching to internal antennas. I bet lawyers are into this cancer scare. But they need better material than the research published so far. That widely cited study from last spring actually found no statistical significance in tumor incidence of phone users - they had to build their case on statistically non-significant results. That's bad news in basic research. Tero