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Under 16? Sorry No Cell Phones, Says New Indian Guideline

by Gopalan on August 31, 2007 at 12:21 PM Lifestyle News

Amidst a worldwide debate among the scientific community over the health hazards posed by prolonged use of cellular phones, The Indian Department of Telecom is examining a proposal to discourage the use of mobile phones by children under the age of 16 years.

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An expert�s team at the Telecom Engineering Centre, a federal agency, has come up with draft guidelines suggesting that in order to minimise health risk through radiation children below 16 years should not be allowed to use cellular phones.

�The tissues of children are tender and therefore, they are likely to be more affected by use of mobile phones. Children below 16 years age should be discouraged from using mobile phones,� the draft guidelines said while pointing to the fact that the World Health Organisation (WHO) too was studying if there were harmful effects of electromagnetic fields. The cumulative effect of electromagnetic fields may cause undesired effects on human beings, it further said.

Just by their basic operation, cell phones emit a small amount of electromagnetic radiation. When talking on a mobile phone, a transmitter takes the sound of the speaker's voice and encodes it onto a continuous sine wave (a type of continuously varying wave that radiates out from the antenna and fluctuates evenly through space). Once the encoded sound has been placed on the sine wave, the transmitter sends the signal to the antenna, which then sends the signal out.

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