PHS vs Mobile Telephone

Mobile telephone study underway.

Epidemiologists at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom will study victims of brain tumors over the next 3 years to determine if the use of mobile phones has contributed to the victims cancers. At the same time, the researchers will study the use of mobile phones by an equal number of people without cancer. Epidemiologist Tricia McKinney, PhD, who will lead the study said, “The causes ...

Call me--mobile telephone blues.

The development of mobile telephone communication technology and its availability on a worldwide scale has been widely recognised as a force for good. There have been, however, concerns about the possible harmful effects of prolonged exposure to this technology. Two articles in this issue investigate possible harmful effects of mobile telephone use. Seckin and colleagues investigate the possibl...

Mobile Agents in the Mobile Telephone Network Management

The paper discusses the application of mobile agents in the management of mobile telephone (cellular) networks. We propose the use of mobile agents for collecting subscriber information, such as location area identifier and cell identifier. By using a subscriber profile containing these data the signaling messages caused by location update could be reduced. We also propose a method to improve t...

Deployment of Mobile Agents in the Mobile Telephone Network Management

Mobile agents are autonomous, asynchronous and, optionally, intelligent software entities which can migrate to and reside in a number of network nodes. In our proposal mobile agents are used for collecting subscriber information on the terminal side in mobile communication networks. Mobile agents are sent out by the network part for collecting information, such as location area identifier and c...

The Economics of Mobile Telephone Regulation