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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
