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Nomophobia [1] (short for "no mobile phobia") is a word for the fear of, or anxiety caused by, not having a working mobile phone. [2] [3] It has been considered a symptom or syndrome of problematic digital media use in mental health, the definitions of which are not standardized for technical and genetical reasons.
In telecommunications, the dropped-call rate (DCR) is the fraction of the telephone calls which, due to technical reasons, were cut off before the speaking parties had finished their conversational tone and before one of them had hung up (dropped calls). This fraction is usually measured as a percentage of all calls.
Prevalence of mobile phone overuse depends largely on definitions and the scales used to quantify behaviors. Two main scales are in use, in both adult and adolescent populations: the 20-item self-reported Problematic Use of Mobile Phones (PUMP) scale, [17] and the Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale (MPPUS). There are variations in the age, gender ...
A new review of previous research determines if cell phone radiation causes brain cancer. The review concludes that radiation from cell phones is not likely to increase a person’s risk of brain ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Doctors say there's an epidemic sweeping the nation and it's getting worse. Doctors are calling it text neck. "Text neck is where people are hunched over looking at their ...
In the 2019 survey, 61% of UK millennial office workers reported that they would "display physical, anxiety-induced behaviours when they're the only ones in the office and the phone rings". [4] A 2024 survey in the UK found that one quarter of respondents aged 18–34 admitted that they had never answered a call to their mobile phone.
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Neighbouring cells with the same frequencies interfere with each other, deteriorating the quality of service and producing dropped calls. Transmission problems are also a common cause of dropped calls. Another problem may be a faulty transceiver inside the base station. Calls can also be dropped if a mobile phone at the other end of the call ...