What are cell phone base stations, and are there health hazards associated with living, working, playing or going to school near one?
Cell phones are low-power, single-channel, two-way radios. When you talk on a cell phone, you are talking to a nearby base station. That base station then routes your call into the regular land-line phone system or to another base station. Cell phones and base stations produce radio-frequency (RF) radiation and expose people near them to that energy. However, because both the phones and the base stations are short-range low-power transmitters, the RF radiation exposure levels from them are generally very low.
