On 07/05/2015 03:24 PM, Seth wrote:
the 500 Billion dollar a year industry needed to obtain special legal protection absolving them of any liability in a 1998 U.S. Telecommunications bill rider.
Don't know, or believe, there were any medically related issues addressed by that rider, albeit the Finns were studying cell phone radiation early on, but rider to the bill gave them common carrier status to legally prohibit people with scanners from monitoring what at the time were mostly (if not all) analog radio transmissions. Early users of cellies, much like now, weren't technically literate enough to realize that the sex talk they were making with their GF on the side (or that business deal) was 'in the clear' for anyone to hear, and when they began to find out, the cell phone industry trembled, and lobbied congress for common carrier protection from eavesdropping.