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Mobile Phones And Its Effect On Communication Essay

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Mobile phones are devices which are used worldwide mostly to ease communication. Business persons use it to ease their transactions among others. According to Senthil & Sakthi(2015)published in Journal of Internet Banking & Commerce 'the 3G telephone enables users to access data; listen to music; play games; send and receive simple text messages (SMS); access multimedia messaging services, voice, and video, as well as internet access through wireless application protocol (WAP) '. This is why young people in particular are the most attracted to the advantages of the mobile phones. On the other hand they are the most affected in the case of its disadvantages. During the manufacturing of mobile phones toxins like arsenic, lithium, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc are associated that is why when these mobiles are discarded these toxic substances may burst out of the phone batteries in the landfills, seeps into ground water and contaminate the soil. Senthil and Sakthi(2015) also state that when the soil is contaminated it builds up metal and when it is concentrated may cause health problems .Experts in World Health Organization have also stated that mobile phones can cause harm in the brain like brain tumor and cancer, dizziness and radiations emitted from the phone are harmful to the eardrum. Key words: Mobile Phone, Environmental hazard, Health, Radiation, Electro-magnetic wave. The environmental Effect The public is innocent of the electro-magnetic radiation

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