What About The Cordless Phones I Use In My House?
Digital cordless phones and their base units emit pulsed microwaves and these can exceed the levels from an actual mobile phone in areas where the mobile phone service has good signal strengths. Holding a digital cordless (DECT) phone to their head will always expose the user to higher levels of microwave fields than they will ever experience (in public access areas) from a mobile phone base station. Most DECT base units continuously emit pulsed microwave radiation even when no call is in progress. The level is typically still over 3 V/m half a meter away from the base unit and can be over 1 V/m in rooms directly above. These are higher field levels than those measured from a typical mobile phone mast. If you are concerned about the potential adverse health effects from microwave radiation, you might want to think carefully about whether you want a DECT phone in your house. If you want it to monitor incoming calls when you are, for instance, at the bottom of the garden, then answer the call briefly, and have the main conversation on a normal wired phone when you go back inside. All types of microwave exposure at the levels received from handset use have been shown to produce genetic damage inside blood cells. Radio frequency radiation has been used for a variety of covert purposes for some :considerable time. It was used to deter the women at Greenham Common, some of whom still suffer ongoing health problems. The Soviet's irradiation of the US embassy in Moscow produced serious adverse health effects, including Leukemias and lymphomas, was the conclusion reached by a relatively recent reanalyzes of the Lilienfeld report (Refs) based on information from USA Defence Intelligence Agency papers that only became fully available following the Freedom Information Act. Over 23 years ago the US was well aware of both cognitive and biochemical changes in the brains of adults exposed to pulsed microwave radiation. It is also interesting to note that the microwave frequencies the Russians used in many of their microwave weapon experiments were around 1800 MHz the same as is now used in Europe for GSMI800 / PCN and for DECT cordless phones.

Are Mobile Phone Base Stations Safe?
Nothing that we live with is 100% safe. Everything in our environment carries some level of risk potential, some of which have been investigated in detail (e.g. petrol and diesel and their combustion products), and others that are being used with little investigation (e.g. the many novel chemicals now present in our water and food, due to agricultural practices, packaging and storage processes, water fluoridation, etc.). The power used to transmit signals from mobile phone base stations to the phones themselves is very low, and we do not believe that it has any ability to heat tissue, which is the only effect we are currently protected against by law. The signals from all base stations pulse to varying extents. It is this pulsing that has been associated by many leading scientists with harm to biological living systems. Areas of pulsing are found all around base stations and are likely to be the trigger for many of the health problems reported by people living and I or working in the vicinity. The visual impact of the masts is also likely to result in indirect health problems caused by stress. It is also possible, if not probable, that the electromagnetic pollution caused by the sea of microwaves we are now experiencing is interacting with other environmental toxic substances, causing our immune systems to become dysfunctional.

Mobile Phones: Latest Research
Handsets give of microwaves which cause cells to mutate in a way which cannot be easily stopped. The effect is worse when the body is exposed to five minute bursts of mobile use rather than long term sessions. The researchers found that cell mutation appeared to be more severe in older people.  The findings of the EU-funded study showed that phone signals released highly reactive groups of free radicals which caused DNA to mutate. Franz Aldrkofer who led the 4 year £2.2 million study said: ‘We don't want to create panic but it is good to take precautions’.  A spokesman for the mobile phone industry stated: ‘The findings of this European study are pretty controversial’