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To: JGoren who wrote (72146)	12/9/2007 12:35:08 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196668

When a photon is absorbed in a brain, the point of absorption has no mechanism of knowing whether it was an AMPS, CDMA, GSM, TDMA, PHS, W-CDMA, HSDPA etc transmission system, other than getting a guess based on the energy absorbed, which would only give a probabilistic chance of being right because the older systems were lower frequency [and hence lower energy and less damaging than higher energy photons]. Yes, the older phones put out more power. But they had bigger antennas too [sticking way up high] so the absorbed radiation was less. Way back in 1996, I was discussing this in the Ince stream and explaining that CDMA causes less brain cancer [due to lower power output and absorption]. As antennas shrunk, the radiation was increasingly right beside the head. But power output was reducing too. But all of them cause so few brain cancers that finding the amount caused has so far proven beyond the reach of the studies, other than to show that the maximum is very low; so low that the reasonably-sized studies which hoped to measure the effects failed to find much. Separating the effects of 800MHz GSM vs 2.3GHzCDMA is way beyond the reach of the studies so far. Mqurice