Over the past 8 years RFS has
played an instrumental roll in the development of a long list
of breakthrough technologies to mitigate safety and
compatibility problems caused by electromagnetic radiation.
Our detailed understanding of how to safely and
efficiently control radiant energy from wireless devices
reduces RF exposure levels to exceed all government safety
regulations imposed by SAR (Specific
Absorption Rate) guidelines. This even allows recipients
of medical devices such as
hearing aids and
pacemakers
non-discriminating accessibility to wireless phones.
Pryor to July 2003 the wireless
industry was allowed an exemption for medical device
compatibility because of a FCC Rule known as the isotropic
rule. The wireless industry has always claimed that cell
phones needed to transmit energy 360 degrees (isotropic)
around a phones antenna. This allowed the wireless
industry to go without any safe guards for controlling
non-thermal levels of rf exposure responsible for
interference.
Congress enacted the Americans
with Disabilities Act (section 255) to ensure technology
solutions would be developed with technology advancements. The
FCC's reexamination of the exemption granted to Personal
Communications Services (PCS) wireless devices from certain
provisions of the Hearing Aid Compatibility Act of 1988 (the
HAC Act) as announced in the Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (the NPRM), WT Docket 01-309. The FCC found that
alternative (RF Safe Approved) antenna technologies currently
exists for HAC compliance, and ruled that mobile phone
manufactures must control cell phone radiation directed to the
head of a hearing aid user by 2008.
