Links

Operators

Hutchison 3G UK (trading as 3)
www.three.co.uk

O2
www.o2.com

Orange
www.orange.co.uk

T-Mobile
www.t-mobile.co.uk

Vodafone
www.vodafone.co.uk

Health Reviews

Listing of Health Reviews

Other Health Links

The Department of Health - Public Health topics of special interest to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
Mobile phones and wireless communications technologies at home and at work. 31 August 2005

Information on the Department of Health's leaflets can be found on the Department of Health's website at:
Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health
Mobile Phones and Health

The Radiation Protection Division of the Health Protection Agency (previously the National Radiological Protection Board)
www.hpa.org.uk

The Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (IEGMP) or Stewart Report
www.iegmp.org.uk

Information on the Department of Health's mobile telecoms health research programme
www.mthr.org.uk

World Health Organisation - Electromagnetic Fields
www.who.ch/peh-emf

Cancer Research UK, the UK's leading charity dedicated to cancer research
http://info.cancerresearchuk.org

"The European Commission publishes a report titled 'Health and Electromagnetic Fields'
The publication describes the background to research on the health impacts of electromagnetic fields and gives examples of research funded by the Commission"
http://europa.eu.int

International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
www.icnirp.de

University of Ottawa, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment
The website provides a science-based, independent and credible source of information on health issues related to wireless communications.
www.rfcom.ca/about/index.shtml

US Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) and Federal Communications Commission joint site providing consumer information on wireless phones.
www.fda.gov/cellphones

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
www.arpansa.gov.au

The Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR). The Centre is committed to building a better understanding of the biological and possible health effects of human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF). The Centre implements a well-directed multidisciplinary research program drawing on the extensive skills, knowledge and experience of scientists from a number of Australian research institutions as well as overseas affiliates.
http://acrbr.org.au/Default.aspx

Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)
www.theiet.org

International Agency for Research on Cancer - INTERPHONE study
www.iarc.fr/ENG/Units/RCA4.php

COST 281 - Potential Health Implications from Mobile Communication Systems
www.cost281.org/over.php

The European Commissions 6th Framework Programme (1 March 2004 - 29 February 2008)
Effects of the Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields: From Science to Public Health and Safer Workplace
www.jrc.cec.eu.int/emf-net/index.cfm

The EMF-Portal lets you in on the actual knowledge status regarding potential health-related effects of electromagnetic Fields (EMF) on the basis of scientific research results. To ensure understanding even for non-expert readers, scientific studies and publications are represented in a comprehensible way. EMF-Portal is a project of the German Research Centre for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction and is supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany
EMF Portal

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (incorporating the work of the Medical Devices Agency)
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=261

A briefing by the UK's Health and Safety Executive on mobile phones and health
www.hse.gov.uk/lau/lacs/60-7.htm

Planning

England
www.communities.gov.uk

Northern Ireland
www.doeni.gov.uk/planning

Scotland
www.scotland.gov.uk

Wales
www.wales.gov.uk/subiplanning

Planning Portal
www.planningportal.gov.uk

Radio and Masts

Office of Communications (Ofcom) which, at the end of 2003 incorporated the Radiocommunications Agency
www.ofcom.org.uk/sitefinder/

Industry

Ericsson
www.ericsson.com/health

Motorola
www.motorola.com/rfhealth/new.html

Nokia
www.nokia.com/safety

Carphone Warehouse
www.carphonewarehouse.com

Trade associations

Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association
www.amta.org.au

Canada Wireless Telecommunications Association
www.cwta.ca

Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA)
www.wow-com.com

Forschungsgmeinschaft Funk
http://www.fgf.de/english/index.php

GSM Association - The GSM Association (GSMA) is a global trade association that represents the interests of more than 550 GSM mobile operators.
www.gsmworld.com

GSM Association - Health & Environment. This site is developed and maintained by the GSM Association to provide balanced summaries of materials on important issues around health and environmental issues related to mobile and wireless communications.
www.gsmworld.com/health/

GSM Association Europe is the European Interest Group of the GSM Association
www.gsmworld.com/gsmeurope

GSM Europe briefing document on policy, European exposure standards, how phones and base stations work, research and communications initiatives (September 2004)
www.gsmworld.com/gsmeurope/events/hes_seminar2/mobile_comms_matters.pdf

GSM Europe report on European mobile operator responses to public concerns http://www.gsmworld.com/gsmeurope/documents/rollout_recommendations.pdf

Mobile Communications Forum (FMK)
www.fmk.at

Mobile Manufacturer's Forum (MMF)
www.mmfai.org

Swedish Mobile Telecommunications Industry (MTB)
www.mtb.se

The TETRA Industry Group (TIG)
www.tetrahealth.info

The UK Federation of Communication Services (FCS)
www.fcs.org.uk

Interest groups

All Party Parliamentary Mobile Group
www.APmobile.org.uk

Friends of the Earth
www.foe.co.uk

Mast Action UK
www.mastaction.co.uk

Mast Sanity, a branch of Campaign Planning Sanity
www.mastsanity.org

Powerwatch
www.powerwatch.org.uk

Radiation Research Trust
www.radiationresearch.org

Related sites

A report by the Scottish Parliament's Transport and Environment Committee on aspects of telecommunications development, published on 29 March 2000
www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/x-transport/reports-00/trr00-03-01.htm

The European Commission: Official Documents.
www.europa.eu.int/documents/comm/index_en.htm

FCC Office of Engineering and Technology
www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety

International Telecommunications Union
tel: +41 22 730 6164
www.itu.int/ITUTELECOM/index.html

Wireless Information Resource Centre - WIRC
www.wirc.org

Sense About Science - is a charitable trust, founded in 2002, to promote an evidence-based approach to scientific issues in the public domain. The trust works with organisations, experts and opinion formers to encourage this approach, particularly in areas of controversy.
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/
Recent work includes a discussion paper, Peer Review and the Acceptance of New Scientific Ideas this can be found at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/peerreview/index.htm

Science Media Centre - is an independent venture working to promote the voices, stories and views of the scientific community to the news media when science is in the headlines.
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org
A leaflet setting out information on the peer review process can be found at:
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/downloads/peer_review_in_a_nutshell.pdf 

INTECH Science Centre - a hands-on interactive science and technology centre.
http://www.intech-uk.com/

A new exhibit at the INTECH Science Centre, Winchester explains the science behind the mobile phone
http://www.intech-uk.com/folders/news/new_exhibit_opens.cfm

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