Consumer information on SAR
(Specific Absorption Rate)
This Model Phone Meets the Government's Requirements for Exposure to Radio
Waves. Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter and receiver. It is designed
and manufactured not to exceed the emission limits for exposure to
radiofrequency (RF) energy set by the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) of the U.S. Government. These FCC exposure limits are derived from the
recommendations of two expert organizations, the National Council on
Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) and the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In both cases, the recommendations were
developed by scientific and engineering experts drawn from industry,
government, and academia after extensive reviews of the scientific literature
related to the biological effects of RF energy. The exposure limit for wireless
mobile phones employs a unit of measurement known as the Specific
Absorption Rate, or SAR. The SAR is a measure of the rate of absorption of RF
energy by the human body expressed in units of watts per kilogram (W/kg).
The FCC requires wireless phones to comply with a safety limit of 1.6 watts per
kilogram (1.6 W/kg). The FCC exposure limit incorporates a substantial margin
of safety to give additional protection to the public and to account for any
variations in measurements. Tests for SAR are conducted using standard
operating positions specified by the FCC with the phone transmitting at its
highest certified power level in all tested frequency bands. Although SAR is
determined at the highest certified power level, the actual SAR level of the
phone while operating can be well below the maximum value. Because the
phone is designed to operate at multiple power levels to use only the power
required to reach the network, generally, the closer you are to a wireless base
station antenna, the lower the power output. Before a phone model is
available for sale to the public, it must be tested and certified to the FCC that
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