Will Your Mobile Phone Kill You ??

By OKI

This book deals with the health issues associated with mobile phone usage, it tries to find out whether the cell phone causes cancer or not. the book also suggest solutions for the mobile phone industry and users alike. it is a literary research into cell phone radiaton emission and its effects on the living tissue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: OKI
• Release date: May 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223745495

Book preview

THIS PAGE HAS BEEN DELIBERATELY LEFT HERE AS THE ORIGINAL TITLE PAGE OF MY DISSERTATION.

FACULTY OF BUSINESS, COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

MOBILE COMMERCE AND THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE

BY

OGBONNA O. C.

MSC MOBILE COMMERCE

MAY 2008

London South Bank University

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Okebugwu Oki Ogbonna was born in London in 1972, and was raised in Nigeria where he studied Chemistry at the University of Calabar as an undergraduate, he returned to the United Kingdom before graduating and changed studies by attending Croydon College, where he obtained his HNC in Electric, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.

He then proceeded to London South Bank University (LSBU) where he studied Computer Information Engineering, BEng. He also obtained his Master’s degree from the same university in Managing Wireless Systems and Information Technology.

He lives and works in London and is married with two children.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Despite an acute lack of support from a vital area of support, I wish to acknowledge the following persons. My GOD for giving me life and knowledge to carry out this project turned booklet, My loving mother for bringing me into this world and sacrificing too much to turn me into what I’ve become in life.

Rasheed for sticking your neck out without my asking, you are a true friend and this is ironic (though we are not close, in the true sense of what is deemed normal friendship), my Course Director Ms Val Flynn for an unflinching support in my times of need, which were many and my question for you is, where do you get your charitable spirit from?, without you and your immense support, I probably wouldn’t have obtained my MSC. I also wish to thank Dr Salinas, Dr Santini, Pre-Dr Rayon and Chris Meriden of the LSBU Stores for trying their very best to set up the Lab test, you did not have to help me but you all did anyway, Mabel Barnes for being there as usual thanks a lot, you all are good people and may God bless you all.

Abstract

Do product manufacturers and service providers in today’s world of commerce owe it to their consumers to be ethical with the services and products they sell to the consumer? The answer should be a big YES!

And this notion is backed by various regulatory bodies that inspect and audit the processes that products go through to, to reach the consumer, making sure that are ethical processes. Also the answer might be ‘not in every case’ and this is because as much as, take for example, the manufacturers of tobacco products could be held responsible for the ill health of millions of smokers world over in the ‘court of public opinion’, or even after  successful litigations or the various factual findings of the science and medical communities, the warnings put on the product by the tobacco and cigarette makers now shields them from legal responsibility, but does this make it right ?, is this really ethical ?. Equally the shops that retail these products feel they too cannot be held equally responsible in this regard of the moral or legal responsibility, their main premise being that they did not make the product but are merely selling it to a willing buyer and also that the product itself carries a clear health warning, but the same perennial question of ethics persist.

The above ethical scenario can also be applied to various areas of commercial exchange and product manufacture, including the Mobile Commerce world which is relatively novel in terms of age and human association, but faces the same ethical challenges as does the tobacco industry et al, with regards to its effect on human health, which is now a growing concern for both experts and consumers.

The mobile phone industry now has two choices placed before it, these choices have already been experienced first hand by the tobacco industry, that is to continue to claim its products are safe and back it with scientific proof (though there are also science that differs from its stance), or accept that there could be health problems associated with its products and issue warnings to its users and then invent better products or safer ways to use them. This is an ethical challenge before it.

Table of contents

Title

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Tables, Graphs and diagrams

Introduction

Chapter one – Why This Booklet

Chapter two – A Brief History of Mobile Phones

Chapter three – Cancer

Chapter four – Literature Review

Chapter five – Other Conclusions By The Expert Group

Chapter six – Expert Counter Literature and Arguments

Chapter eight – Literature Review on Ethics and Mobile Phone Industry

Chapter nine – Methodologies

Chapter ten – Analysis

Chapter eleven- Analysis of the Tobacco Industry Situation and Issues of Ethics

Chapter twelve- Conclusions and Recommendations

TABLES, GRAPHS AND Diagrams

Table 1: Are mobile phones dangerous.  Page 10

Table 2:  Human Brain Wave Activity.  Page 33

Diagram 1: Electromagnetic Spectrum. Page 13

Diagram 2: Illustration of Corporate Responsibility. Page 42

GRAPH 1: SCATTER PLOT of Independent vs Industry funded studies into

The Cell Phone: Page 37

INTRODUCTION

The mobile phone and other wireless technologies have completely revolutionised the way information and data communication is sent and received between different parties, for example no longer does one have to make a simple phone call from a fixed landline to a fixed receiving landline phone alone, you can phone and send data ubiquitously. This new way of communication continues to push the boundaries of human interaction at various levels of our daily endeavours, as can be seen with new types of phone handsets and headsets offering all kinds of new features and applications (APPs), and also the way service providers are churning out new kinds of services to the user from text messaging, to video phoning and messaging, to mobile internet and the Blackberry Messenger of the recent past and now the Iphone and Samsung of today with their mind blowing applications and capabilities, take for example, the afore mentioned capabilities were written in 2008 and as we know now more than a decade later, that these earlier capabilities now seem very primitive and obsolete in comparison to today’s phones and technologies as they offer faster connectivity and downloads and offer bigger memory storage and on the application stage, phones now host Apps like Tiktok, Snapchat and Instagram which are video based apps allowing users to post audio-visual content instantly online and immediately connect with millions and in some cases billions of followers around the globe.

The consequences for trade and commerce has been very revolutionary, in that, whereas in the past only big name brands ruled the markets, these times, we have the rise of the individual called ‘Influencers’, who on the basis of their established popularity or on-platform engineered popularity can sell products on a global scale and in the process reap huge profits for themselves, all based on the ability to have millions of followers whom they influence and who follow them on these app