Recent GSMA Updates
GSMA: Mobile Phone Lifecycles
We launched a new section on the GSMA microsite dedicated to mobile
phone lifecycle environmental issues. It contains information on all phone
lifecycle stages from design and use, through take-back and reuse before
end-of-life recycling . It also highlights partnership initiatives addressing used and end-of-life mobile phones.
The material is supported by an on-line animation, a 1 page flyer (pdf) and links to background documents, such as the GSMA report on this subject.
GSMA: Health & Environment Site Updates
There have been a number of updates and additions to the GSMA microsite.
- Added recent review reports from France and Sweden, and updated a number of other entries.
- A glossary has also been started that will be developed over time.
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GSMA papers
Other Items of Interest
Africa: African mobile service providers tap into solar energy
Statistics from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) indicate that Africa uses about 30 million liters of diesel every year to power mobile base stations.
Europe: SCENIHR Opinion on EMF
A summary of the 2007 scientific opinion on EMF of the EC Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) has been produced in a format that can be understood by non-specialists.
France: Les risques du telephone portable
On 17 June the Academie Nationale De Medecine issued a Communiqué, which is critical of alarmist opinion and warns that the precautionary principle should not be used to justify warnings in the absence of evidence of harm.
Global: Cellphone popcorn videos are fakes, maker says
The makers of the viral videos showing friends in three countries using the death rays from their cellphones to pop popcorn are, unsurprisingly, fakes.
Global: Smart technology can reduce global emissions by 15% - study
The report by the °Climate Group and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative shows that the ICT’s ability to monitor and maximise energy efficiency both within and outside its own sector could cut CO2 emissions by up to 10%.
India: Finally, An Indian Study To Find Answers To Cell Phone Health Hazards
The Federal Health ministry of India has ordered to conduct the country’s first large study on the effects of radio frequency radiations (RFR) emitted from mobile phones.
UK: Mobile Phone Health Debate - Impaired by Unreliable Scientific Research
A new report, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has questioned the reliability of scientific literature.
UK: New Mobile Phone Research Announced
The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme has announced that work has started on a new study to investigate whether the use of mobile phones is linked to long-term health effects such as brain cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
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