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I have 2 grandchildren in public schools and am very worried about health radiation exposure from the wireless technology used in our schools. The risks include cancer (which is the 2nd cause of death in children). The core issue is that wireless technology was implemented, without consideration of the impact on human health, based on the 1996 FCC Regulation. Since then, new scientific studies have proven links to health risks from wireless radiation. I learned first-hand about illness from wireless exposure when I became ill in my own home. Having spent my career as a university librarian, I educated myself about this. The science points to strong associations between wireless radiation and multiple illnesses. The [U.S.] National Toxicology Program reports that wireless radiation causes DNA damage which results in cancer. Dr. Anthony Miller, former senior advisor to the WHO states that it should be promoted from 2B to 1A, a human carcinogen. In fact, this radiation is absorbed deeper into the bodies of children than into adults. The danger is not only in years to come, but NOW. For example, at Fay School in Southboro, MA, children exposed to Wi-Fi became ill with nose-bleeds, headaches, and nausea. The following steps should be implemented for schools: 1. Require that all computers within schools be hard-wired and eliminate wireless transmission. [This has already been done in Europe]. 2. To immediately minimize WI-FI signals, instruct school personnel to keep wireless routers and devices off when not in use. 3. Since funding may be a challenge, negotiate with the industry that brought in this toxic technology to subsidize the hard-wiring of school computer systems. Our children’s health should take top priority over corporate profit. 4. In addition to the many hours of exposure inside school, there is radiation from outside. Please oppose the installation of 5G antennas within a half-mile of school buildings [as has been done in Europe]. 5G increases radiation exposures manyfold, and at a crucial time of their development, children will be even more bombarded. Given that 1 in 3 people will develop cancer in their lifetime, please take action to protect ALL our children, teachers, and staff! [See sources below] Links to Health Effects of Wireless Radiation "Generation Zapped" https://generationzapped.com/watch-the-film/ Trailer to “Generation Zapped”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj_30YDVkaI Understanding EMF's , including Impact on Children https://sites.google.com/site/understandingemfs/home Cell towers: https://sites.google.com/site/understandingemfs/cell-towers Childhood cancer rates by state: https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/quick-profiles/index.php?statename=massachusetts Schools Banning Cell-Towers The Los Angeles Unified School District has adopted several Board resolutions that ban cell towers on or near schools: http://emrpolicy.org/news/headlines/29may09_lausd_press_release.pdf http://sunroomdesk.com/2009/12/10/lausd-calls-for-increased-setbacks-advance-notification-on-locations-near-schools/  See the Environmental Health Trust for information to provide schools: https://ehtrust.org/cell-tower-proposed-near-home-childs-school-need-scientific-resources-health-safety/ Jeromy Johnson, M.S. Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NEaPTu9oI&t=11s Sharon Goldberg, M.D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0AliMe-KA Environmental Health Trust https://ehtrust.org/science/whoiarc-position-on-wireless-and-health/ Huntington NY Accoustimeter measuring radiation from "small cells" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcozqp5Op78 Children sickened from wi-fi at Fay School, Southboro, MA See https://www.boston25news.com/news/parents-say-schools-wifi-signal-making-son-sick-1/7363498 Major cities revolt against FCC’s proposed small cell deployment rules https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/major-u-s-cities-revolt-against-fcc-s-proposed-small-cell-deployment-rules "Burlington Union" report of Verizon's withdrawal of application for 7 "small cells" in Burlington, MA http://burlington.wickedlocal.com/news/20181026/verizon-withdraws-burlington-cell-tower-application Among children ages 0 to 14 years, it is estimated that, in 2018, 10,590 will be diagnosed with cancer and 1,180 will die of the disease (1). Among adolescents ages 15 to 19 years, about 5000 will be diagnosed with cancer and about 600 will die of the disease. https://www.cancer.gov/types/childhood-cancers/child-adolescent-cancers-fact-sheet Presentation by Cece Doucette at Burlington, MA Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3DS6cK53Q&t=110s BCAT summary of Burlington presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyOzIyxRo8

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To Whom it May Concern: Please think about the future of the children in your lives by looking at current research on how the existing RF exposures may be harming us all and our environment. Thank you.

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Comment in Response to Public Notice DA 26-997, ET Docket No. 13-84 This comment addresses FCC’s methodological criteria for assessments of responses to the mentioned Public Notice as one may interpret from its questions in the FCC Public Notice page 7. These criteria are by and large those used by IEEE ICES and ICNIRP. The methodological criteria used by IEEE ICES and ICNIRP to identify thresholds for RF-EMF caused harmful health effects, are flawed – and so for several reasons detailed in referenced material: 1. At non-thermal levels, these standards explicitly restrict themselves to acute effects only, not accepting temporarily annoying effects as harmful effects (e.g., not tinnitus…), nor long term effects (e.g., not cancer, diabetes, …), and only effects objectively observable (e.g., not headache, nausea, , …). Effects have to be proven by research methods primarily appropriate for identifying thermal effects, even when effects are well demonstrated by acceptable methods not to be thermal. Research proving effects, but not using thermally based methods is regarded as no or poor evidence, hence dismissible. 2. Such thermal methodological criteria and stringent demands for proof may all be traced back to historical contexts of research on ionizing radiation effects and non-ionizing radiation’s thermal effects in which they are defensible. In the context of non-thermal effects of non-ionizing radiation they are not. However, they have been made part of standards in which they function as a bulwark against accepting any effects from RF-EMFs below thermal levels. Using such a thermal methodology produces conclusions of «no health effects found» as an artefact, i.e. as a result of the methodology as such, and is thus without any evidentiary power – just flawed. Such methodology also means dismissing a precautionary approach, as the scope is set far too restrictive. 3. The ICNIRP 2020 and ICES C95.1 2019 standards, by which, a.o., 5G deployment were legitimized worldwide, are based on research studies and assessments based on essentially these same methodological elements, and thus flawed, having no predictive value for non-thermal health risk identification. 4. The assessments carried out by WHO’s The International EMF Project in order to be used as a platform for RF-EMF standard revisions, have been required to use study protocols based on such thermally based methodology, and therefore flawed, too (apart for the one assessment which did not accept using such a thermal protocol). Details underpinning the statements above are found in the following scientific papers and responses to the FCC and HHS Request for Information: Nordhagen EK, Flydal E. WHO to build neglect of RF-EMF exposure hazards on flawed EHC reviews? Case study demonstrates how "no hazards" conclusion is drawn from data showing hazards. Rev Environ Health. 2024 Jul 10;40(2):277-288. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2024-0089. PMID: 38981511. Nordhagen EK, Flydal E. Self-referencing authorships behind the ICNIRP 2020 radiation protection guidelines. Rev Environ Health. 2022 Jun 27;38(3):531-546. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2022-0037. PMID: 35751553. Else K. Nordhagen, Einar Flydal, Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam, and Vibeke Frøkjær Jensen: Comment in Response to FCC Public Notice DA 26-997, ET Docket No. 13-84, Submitted Oct.20.2026. https://bit.ly/4i6XM0h Else Nordhagen, Vibecke Frøkjær, Einar Flydal, Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam, Fiorella Belpoggi: Quality criteria for RF/EMF Health-Risk Assessments, Essential Criteria for Assessing Health Risks from Wireless Radiation, Response to HHS Request for Information, Submitted Oct.20.2026. https://bit.ly/3UCWjFO It follows that the methodology used to assess RF-EMF health effects should be thoroughly revised. As shown in the mentioned references, more relevant methodological frameworks for assessments do exist. Signed by Einar Flydal Oslo, Norway, Oct. 20, 2026 Einar Flydal is a Master of political science from the University of Oslo, Norway, and Master of Telecom Strategy and Technology Management from the Norwegian Polytechnical University (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Before retiring, Flydal was a Senior Researcher at Telenor Research & Development. He has also served as a Senior Strategy Adviser in the Telenor corporate management, and, a.o., as adjunct assistant professor at NTNU. Since 2010, he has studied and published, first and foremost for the general public in Scandinavia, on EMFs, health and environmental impacts. He chaired the Norwegian mirror commitee of the development of the ISO 26000 standard on the social responsability of organizations.

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i suffered negative health impact from EMF from cellphone, Wifi, cell towers, and wind turbines. it caused my diaphragm to constrict and disallow proper breathing. the wind turbine's emissions are the most powerful and their detrimental effects reach far and wide. my phone is now kept on airplane mode except during use with ear plugs, home computer, cell phone are hard wired at home and distance is kept from wind turbines and cell towers. i suffered much needless hardship as it took time to pin point the true cause of this severe debilitation. until then proper and efficacious measures could NOT be taken.