bought Siemens Gigaset A580 from Australia but my call waiting did not work in Canada, actually I had to disconnect current conversation in order to answer new incoming call. Besides that, I liked that phone because it had Eco Mode PLUS (the phone is dead now). Now the problem is that in Canada and US we can not buy Eco Mode PLUS phone, we can only buy Eco Mode which means base station is pulsing/radiating ALL THE TIME. I would appreciate if you can help me to choose a new cordless phone for my home (even if it's an older type as long as it has call display and call waiting). Please help me choose the phone and please explain what technology and why (analog, digital, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz, etc).
This posting is spew from 2008, but still interesting.
How low in radiation do you want? The typical cordless phone radiates about 5 to 10 milliwatts of RF. Using an SAR model, that would be about 0.005 to 0.01 watt/kg exposure as compared to maybe 1 watt/kg for a cell phone. The FCC limit is 1.6 watts/kg.
Also, there's no connection between cell phone (and by implication cordless phone) radiation and brain cancer. Here's the incidence of new cases of brain and central nervous system cancers in 9 major metro areas: Note that the graph is almost flat over the last 30 years. Since about 1990, cell phone use has increase exponentially each year. If there were a connection, I would expect the incidence of cancers to have increased, which they have not.