Do mobile phone base station antennas produce radiation?
Yes. Mobile (cellular) phones and their base station antennas are two-way radios, and produce radiofrequency (RF) energy; that's how they work. This RF energy is "non-ionizing", and its biological effects are fundamentally different from the "ionizing" radiation produced by x-ray machines.
This RF energy can also be called microwaves, radiowaves, RF radiation (RFR) or RF emissions. For the discussion of health effects the distinction between radiowaves and microwaves is semantic; and the term "RF energy" or just "RF" is used in this document for all frequencies between 3 kHz and 300 GHz.
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