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This GSMA e-newsletter provides regular updates on developments on science and policy issues and GSMA activities related to mobile communications health and environmental issues.

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Recent GSMA Updates

• Mobile Abstracts - March 2008
  This is a monthly newsletter prepared jointly by the GSMA and the MMF and provides a brief update of recent scientific publications related to mobile telephony. The format is short with a summary of the article taken from the published abstract and a link to the paper itself.

• The Role of Mobile Phones in Family Communication, Devitt et al., Children & Society, Published Online: 23 April 2008.
  '...The findings show that young people and parents see mobiles as a key way for families to keep in touch, and to monitor and ensure young people's safety. However, some participants felt there was a downside to this, in relation to some young people either withdrawing into their own social worlds, or having a false feeling of security as a result of having a mobile...'
  
  

  GSMA Comment: This research was supported by the GSMA and the MMF. The full project report and a conference presentation are available on request. See also our related website page.

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Other Stories

Africa: Technology plays crucial role in vaccination distribution.
A partnership comprising Vodafone Group Foundation, the WHO, the national Ministries of Health and the United Nations Foundation is supporting an initiative to develop efficient and effective health data systems, which are essential to improving global public health.

Australia: Dr Vini Khurana thinks Mobiles may be death sentence.
Widespread, unchecked use of mobile telephones could potentially pose a greater threat to human health than asbestos or smoking, according to Canberra neurosurgeon Dr Vini Khurana.

Germany: International expert workshop on the DMF’s research projects on long term effects.
The Conclusions, presentations and Rapporteur report from the Workshop on 11-12 October 2007 are available.

Global: KPMG Claims Six Industry Sectors Should Be on Alert Over Climate Change Risks.
The report places telecommunications in the safe haven area on the basis of perceived low exposure to risk rather than preparedness.

India: Global mobile radiation standards likely to be enforced.
The Telecom Commission, the policy-making body of the Department of Telecommunications, has announced it will be implementing the ICNIRP safety standards.

UK: Femtocells sending out the right signals.
A femtocell is technically a mobile phone base station, but it's one that's been housetrained. For those who fret about health risks (still unproven) from phone masts, an indoor mast does not make the situation worse.

USA: Poor Americans Could Get $11 Billion Boost from Prepay Phones.
Cell phones play a much bigger role in helping Americans get work, make money and respond in emergency situations than previously was thought to be the case.

Mobile Abstracts
(Mar 2008)
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