Important Legal Issues for Telecom Companies -business risks

[Handymania]

US-Telekommunikationsfirmen befürchten besonders im "drahtlosen Geschäftsbereich" ua. gewaltige Klagewellen wegen Gesundheitsgefährdung, Gewinneinbußen, Imageschäden etc. .

"....and we cannot guarantee that additional studies will not demonstrate a link between radio frequency emissions and health concerns." Sprint Nextel
Fettdruck Handymania
Übersetzung: ..und wir können nicht dafür garantieren, dass zukünftige Studien eine Verbindung zwischen Funkfrequenzen und gesundheitlichen Bedenken nicht beweisen werden.


"20 July 2012
Important Legal Issues for Telecom Companies to Address in the Near Future: Verizon and Sprint Nextel

A series of posts will be issued on recent filings from major telecommunications companies with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange are required to list all known business risks for their investors. The following extracts are from the 10-K annual reports of these companies -- the 10-K "provides a comprehensive overview of the company for the past year".
Thank you to Artists Against Wi-Fi for this information.

Following are the filings of Verizon and Sprint Nextel.
VERIZON:
We are subject to a significant amount of litigation, which could require us to pay significant damages or settlements.
Our business faces a substantial amount of litigation, including, from time to time, patent infringement lawsuits, antitrust class actions, wage and hour class actions, personal injury claims and lawsuits relating to our advertising, sales, billing and collection practices.
In addition, our wireless business also faces personal injury and consumer class action lawsuits relating to alleged health effects of wireless phones or radio frequency transmitters, and class action lawsuits that challenge marketing practices and disclosures relating to alleged adverse health effects of handheld wireless phones. We may incur significant expenses in defending these lawsuits. In addition, we may be required to pay significant awards or settlements.


ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011
Verizon Communications Inc.
http://eol.edgarexplorer.com/EFX_dll/ED ... TX257450_2

SPRINT NEXTEL:
Concerns about health risks associated with wireless equipment may reduce the demand for our services.
Portable communications devices have been alleged to pose health risks, including cancer, due to radio frequency emissions from these devices. Purported class actions and other lawsuits have been filed against numerous wireless carriers, including us, seeking not only damages but also remedies that could increase our cost of doing business. We cannot be sure of the outcome of those cases or affected by litigation of this nature or public perception about health risks. The actual or perceived risk of mobile communications devices could adversely affect us through a reduction in subscribers, reduced network usage per subscriber or reduced financing available to the mobile communications industry. Further research and studies are ongoing, and we cannot guarantee that additional studies will not demonstrate a link between radio frequency emissions and health concerns.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
Commission file number 1-04721
SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION
http://investors.sprint.com/Cache/11430 ... D=10793990

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[Handymania]

NOKIA:
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"We cannot, however, be certain that future studies, irrespective of their scientific basis, will not suggest a link between electromagnetic fields and adverse health effects that could have a material adverse effect on our sales, results of operations and share price. Research into these issues is ongoing by government agencies, international health organizations and other scientific bodies in order to develop a better scientific and public understanding of these issues.
Over the past ten years Nokia has been involved in several class action matters alleging that Nokia and other manufacturers and cellular service providers failed to properly warn consumers of alleged potential adverse health effects and failed to include headsets with every handset to reduce the potential for alleged adverse health effects."
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[Handymania]

Und hier die komplette Zusammenstellung für die Vollständigkeit:
Verizon, Next Sprintel, Nokia, Motorola, AT&T.

"MOTOROLA
Allegations of health risks with using Motorola Mobility products, and the lawsuits and publicity relating to them, regardless of merit, could negatively impact our business, operating cash flows and financial condition."

Rechte Spalte, ca. oberes Viertel (Facebook eben):
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NOKIA:
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"We cannot, however, be certain that future studies, irrespective of their scientific basis, will not suggest a link between electromagnetic fields and adverse health effects that could have a material adverse effect on our sales, results of operations and share price. Research into these issues is ongoing by government agencies, international health organizations and other scientific bodies in order to develop a better scientific and public understanding of these issues.
Over the past ten years Nokia has been involved in several class action matters alleging that Nokia and other manufacturers and cellular service providers failed to properly warn consumers of alleged potential adverse health effects and failed to include headsets with every handset to reduce the potential for alleged adverse health effects."
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dort: (ohne Registrierung bei F...book)

Artists Against WiFi hat einen Link geteilt.
vor 5 Minuten.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Dundee ... -club.html

Government official upholds decision to reject mobile phone masts at Dudhope Bowling Club
A controversial proposal to put up a pair of 45ft phone masts at a Dundee bowling club has been rejected.
Vodafone and O2 had appealed against the city council's refusal of planning permission for the replica flag poles at Dudhope Bowling Club on Adelaide Place.
A Scottish Government planning official has ruled the masts cannot be built.

Related content
Councillors reject advice by turning down plan for mobile phone masts at Dudhope Bowling Club
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Dundee ... -club.html

[Handymania]

"Swisscom reveals the true DANGER of WiFi in a patent application filed in September 2004 ... Swisscom is the leading telecom provider in Switzerland. It devised a way to reduce the microwave radiation from WiFi (also known as WLAN or wireless local area network). In its patent application, Swisscom clearly states the elevated risk of cancer and genetic damage from the constant low level microwave/RF exposure from WiFi. Below are excerpts from page one and page two. "
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"Although Swisscom began in 2002 to equip schools with free Internet access, this does not mean the access is wired. In January 2011, I wrote the CEO of Swisscom, who asked one of his colleagues to reply: “our services end at the school router … This means that it is the school’s governing body or the canton that decides whether to opt for a wired or wireless solution.” "

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Telekommunikationsfirmen scheinen wissenschaftliche Studien, die einen mutmaßlichen Zusammenhang zwischen EMF (bzw. deren nichtthermischen Effekte) und dem menschlichen Organismus finden, sehr ernst zu nehmen (z.B. Nennung einer israelischen Studie von Mashevich M. et al, 2003).
Selbstverständlich wird auch von der SwissCom weitere Forschung zum Thema gefordert.

Excerpts from Swisscom patent application
"The influence of electrosmog on the human body is a known problem."
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"These findings indicate that the genotoxic effect of electromagnetic radiation is elicited via a non-thermal pathway. Moreover aneuploidy is to be considered as a known phenomenon in the increase of cancer risk."
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"This mutation can consequently lead to increased cancer risk. In particular, it could also be shown that this destruction is not dependent upon temperature increases, i.e. is non-thermal."
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"Despite increasingly strict national (Swiss) guidelines with respect to legally specified limits, the impact of electrosmog in WLANs on the human body can be considerable. Moreover it is to be expected that this impact will continue to increase in the future for many people...First, more and more applications require additional, usually higher-energy frequency bands in order to be able to meet the growing need with respect to transmission rate."

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Direkt-Link zum "SwissCom patent application 2004":
http://www.safeschool.ca/uploads/WiFi_S ... Patent.pdf