8 Safety and regulatory guide
For information about hearing aids and digital wireless phones
FCC Hearing Aid Compatibility and Volume Control:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/hearing.html
Hearing Aid Compatibility for Wireless Telephones
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/hearing-aid-compatibility-wireless-telephones
Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy
Your wireless device has an internal antenna that emits radio frequency (RF) energy.
Human exposure to RF energy has been and continues to be the subject of scientific
research. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), “the weight of
scientific evidence has not linked cell phones with any health problems.” You can
access this FDA publication and other information on human exposure to RF energy at:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration:
http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures
/HomeBusinessandEntertainment/CellPhones/ucm116282.htm
Federal Communications Commission:
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/radio-frequency-safety
NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/cellphones/
Health Canada:
http://healthycanadians.gc.ca/consumer-consommation/home-maison/cell-eng.php
World Health Organization:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/
IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation:
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/embs/comar/
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection:
http://www.icnirp.de/
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Testing
Your device has been designed to comply with applicable limits for RF exposure. These
limits use a unit of measurement called Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR, which refers
to the rate at which the body absorbs RF energy. The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) has established a SAR limit for mobile phones of 1.6 W/kg, which
applies in the United States and other countries that follow the FCC’s SAR limit. This
limit is based upon standards developed by expert non-government organizations,
such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the National
Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), and input from other
federal agencies such as the FDA and EPA. In countries that follow the Council of the
European Union, the SAR limit is 2.0 W/kg.
SAR testing is conducted with the device placed in common operating positions (e.g.,
held against the head, worn on the body) and transmitting at its highest certified power
level in each frequency band of operation. Because the device is transmitting at its
highest certified power level, SAR tests capture a worst-case operating scenario and
therefore often do not reflect the amount of RF exposure during normal, everyday use.
More information on SAR testing is available on the FCC’s website at
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-devices-and-health-concerns
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HTC Corp. submitted SAR test results demonstrating compliance with the FCC’s SAR
limit for wireless devices as part of the FCC’s equipment certification process for this
