Occupational phone use

Interesting and worrying news item just on regarding occupational phone use increase in developing brain diseases. Anyone know what the health risks are of having a cordless phone next to your brain for 25 hrs a week?

I'd suggest quite high - considering they're normally outside your head.........

anything that produces a radio/microwave signal has the potential to cause harm. things like speed guns have been proven to give policemen cancer in there legs because they sat with the guns on there laps. they use infra red, now, mobiles use microwaves which is lower on the spectrum and contains less potential energy so i would say the inferred risks are lessened but still probable. just to be safe never hold a mobile up to your ear if you don't have to. the girls in the studio, i assume use radio frequency phones, like most house phones. they operate at 2.3 to 2.4Ghz range and have even less potential to cause harm. im not saying there risk free but i would think the risk of brain tumor or similar are no higher for them than any normal joe. as we are all bombarded with radio waves 24/7.

Modern DECT cordless phones
Frequency: 1880 MHz–1900 MHz in Europe, 1900 MHz-1920 MHz in China, 1910 MHz-1930 MHz in Latin America and 1920 MHz–1930 MHz in the US and Canada
Average transmission power: 10 mW (250 mW peak) in Europe, 4 mW (100 mW peak) in the US.
The maximum allowed power for portable equipment as well as base stations is 250 mW.
A portable device radiates an average of about 10 mW during a call as it is only using one of 24 time slots to transmit.

I would have thought that they are much less likely to cause cancer than mobile (cell) phones because their output power is much lower.

However this article is worrying
http://www.tetrawatch.net/science/dect.php