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What are the global recommendations for base stations and mobile phone safe usage?

  • Rationalize mobile phone use by pregnant women.
  • Restrict newly born babies from playing with handsets or putting its antennae in mouth or ears.
  • Make sure that ​children use their mobile phones in a proper way.
  • Minimize phone call durations.
  • Maintain a distance buffer around the base station antennae: Six meters in the direction facing the antennae and two meters from the sides and back.

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