Likewise, satellite phones make us able to contact every phone user wherever
we are on the surface of the earth be it at Antarctica in the South, Arctic circle in the North, Amazon rain forests in Brazil or the Mount Everest in Nepal. Alongside, some cell phones equipped with GPS technology, working in most locations around the world help in locating and finding phone or the user in case of loss or emergency. So, cell phones have come to be our forever friend and security agent.-84
Cell phones’ use in business purpose too has been a remarkable one. Today, businessmen can manage and coordinate their office through cell phones. Credit card holders can purchase goods of their want through e-commerce using advanced cell phones like pocket PC. They can make banking transactions through them, carry insurance tasks and advertise their goods, to term few among many options.-61
Cell phones might come to be ‘hot potato’ too once we come to know its hazards, brain tumor being the foremost health effect caused by microwaves and radiations from mobile phones as a result of interference in natural process of DNA replication and repair. Researchers from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland have found that people who used mobile phones for 10 years or more were 39 percent more likely than average to get a brain cancer (glioma) on the side of their head where they held their handset. Similarly, in 2004, Dr George Carlo - the man hired by the cell phones companies in the US to investigate the hazards, finally told reporters, “The Government and industry needs to take the next steps quickly - because now we have findings that say there could be a problem”. And the problem was brain tumor, a neurocytoma. Again, beside this problem, fatigue, headache, sleep disruption and loss of memory are much higher among the people living near to mobile phones base stations.-158
Similarly, cell phones have dangerous hazards to reproductive system of humans as well as heart. Researchers have found 30% less sperm count in the mobile users than in the non-users. Alongside, when GSM was first introduced in Australia people felt that their cell phones were affecting their heart pacemakers. At one instance, a container crane dropped its load because of interference from a digital phone and in New Zealand it was reported that cars have been unable to start because of similar interference. Thus, owing to reports of rapid cardiac arrest and of serious trauma during driving, it is widely suggested to people that they better not use cell phones while driving or when they are in plane. -120
The next global problem that cell phones cause is the detrimental waste. Cell phones contain toxic materials such as lead, mercury, beryllium, arsenic, cadmium, and antimony. Once they are indiscriminately thrown they pollute the air and by landfills they can reach groundwater. Alongside, it has been recorded that unused cell phones are growing at a rate of more than 2 million phones in the US alone per week. So, cell phones have turned to be the modern source of pollutants.-91
Even if the use of cell phones is a huge debatable current issue, the overwhelming benefits they provide to the modern world outweigh the hazards. We are operating almost the world through cell phones at 21st century and no hazards can conversely have consequences at that level. However, the mobile phone industry and scientists should effectively involve in bringing remedy to the side-effects. Thus, cell phones no longer are nuisance rather are beneficial although they have slight negative cons.-81
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