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| U.
S. Consumer Gateway is a "one-stop" link to a broad range of
federal information resources about cellular phones, service plans, free long distance and other cellular phone service clames.
Cellphone regulations available online. It is designed so that
you can locate information by category - cellular phone advertising, wireless contract rules, radiation exposure issues and other caegories like
Food, Health, Product
Safety, Your Money, and Transportation. Each category has subcategories
to direct you to areas within individual federal web sites containing related
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| Federal Trade Commission's Consumer
Protection page has numerous categories of consumer interest such as
Automobile, Credit, E-Commerce & the Internet, Investments, etc. Purchasing cellular phones online can be risky. When applying for free cellular phones with service, you are required to provide personal information such as social security number, date of birth and billing address information. Carriers will do a credit check to approve you for cellular phone service. Categories
contain subcategories like Business Education, Consumer Education, Guides,
Rules & Regs, Workshops and a list of the available publications within
each subcategory. The complaint department is here. |
| Consumer
Information Center Pueblo, Colorado 81009 is a one-stop shopping center
for federal consumer publications. Check out the Consumer
Resource Handbook. |
| Consumer
Product Safety Commission "protects the public
against unreasonable risks of injuries and deaths associated with consumer
products." The fact that cellphones can cause cancer in extreme cases, the FCC has adapted rules to protect consumers from exposure. The IEEE standard adopted by the Government ensures that cellphones cannot transmit more than 0.06 Watts of power. Digital cellphones however send the signal in bursts. Some say this packet of digital information is loaded with radiation. Jury is still out in our house. This site has information on product recalls, reporting forms
for unsafe products and hundreds of pamphlets on safety issues in everyday
life. |
| The Department
of Health and Human Services page offers healthfinder,
a guide to finding reliable health information on the net, and and the
Agency for Health Care and Policy Research Consumer
Health page. |
| Federal
Communications Commission's consumer page is here.
A recent addition to this site is the Common
Carrier Bureau Enforcement Page for telephone company related complaints. Great starting point to find cellphone towers in your neighborhood. All carriers must get approval from the FCC before putting up a tower. All records are kept on cellphone towers and repeaters in the FCC database and is available for public viewing. |
| More Industry News US Postal
Service Find a Post Office,US Postal
Service Find a Post Office, stamps
online, look
up a zip code, buy postal equipment or surplus vehicles, check on scams,
or visit the Consumer's
Guide to Postal Services & Products. |
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