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9.
Use your wireless phone to help others in emergencies. Your wireless phone
provides you a perfect opportunity to be a Good Samaritan in your
community. If you see an auto accident, crime in progress or other serious
emergency where lives are in danger, call 9-1-1 or other local emergency
number, as you would want others to do for you.
10.
Call roadside assistance or a special wireless non emergency assistance
number when necessary. Certain situations you encounter while driving may
require attention, but are not urgent enough to merit a call for emergency
services. But you still can use your wireless phone to lend a hand. If you see
a broken-down vehicle posing no serious hazard, a broken traffic signal, a
minor traffic accident where no one appears injured or a vehicle you know to
be stolen, call roadside assistance or other special non-emergency wireless
number.
Careless, distracted individuals and people driving irresponsibly represent a hazard to
everyone on the road. Since 1984, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry
Association and the wireless industry have conducted an educational outreach
program to inform wireless phone users of their responsibilities as safe drivers and
good citizens. As we approach a new century, more and more of us will take
advantage of the benefits of wireless telephones. And, as we take to the roads, we all
have a responsibility to drive safely.
The wireless industry reminds you to use your phone safely when driving.
Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association For more information, please call
1-888-901-SAFE.
For updates: http://www.ctia.org
Appendix C: Consumer Update on Wireless Phones
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1.
What kinds of phones are the subject of this update?
The term wireless phone refers here to hand-held wireless phones with
built-in antennas, often called cell, mobile, or PCS phones. These types of
wireless phones can expose the user to measurable radio frequency energy
(RF) because of the short distance between the phone and the user s head.
These RF exposures are limited by Federal Communications Commission
safety guidelines that were developed with the advice of FDA and other
federal health and safety agencies. When the phone is located at greater
distances from the user, the exposure to RF is drastically lower because a
person’s RF exposure decreases rapidly with increasing distance from the