Some of the world’s largest mobile phone companies are facing billion-pound lawsuits brought by brain tumour victims. The biggest ever legal assault on the industry will seek to prove that handsets can cause cancer and that firms have deliberately covered up crucial medical information.

If the American action is successful, mobile phone companies will face crippling bills for compensation. As investors digested the news, the four major UK operators – Vodafone, BT Cellnet, Orange and One 2 One – and their parent companies, saw £5.5 billion wiped off their share values…

John Pica, an attorney at Mr Angelos’s firm, said: ‘If these companies knew about the dangers of cell phone radiation, they should be punished and they should be punished dearly – not only for what they did to the public, but for the billions of pounds of profits they made.’

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