Sleep & neurological concerns

I am a mother and a public school teacher. I am filing in Proceeding 13-84 on the impacts of RF radiation on children, the health effects of long-term exposure, and the growth of wireless infrastructure since the Commission last updated its limits. My family lives near commercial radio broadcast towers, and a cellular antenna was later installed nearby, mounted on power lines, without notice to residents. We could find no public registration or record of it. Since living with this exposure, my family has experienced serious health effects, including complications in both of my pregnancies that affected my children. After the cellular antenna was installed, both my husband and I had changes documented in our bloodwork in the same month, with no change in our diet or lifestyle. We were both healthy and active. My doctor has advised that we have done everything we can medically and that we need to move away from the sources of radiation. We are now relocating at significant cost. Long-term exposure and technological change The Commission's RF limits date to 1996. They do not account for continuous, around-the-clock exposure from multiple sources, such as broadcast towers and cell antennas near the same home. Exposure at home continues through the night, when the body needs to rest and carry out its cellular repair. This makes installations near homes especially harmful, because there is no break from exposure during the hours the body depends on most for recovery. RF sources are also increasingly being added in office buildings, hospitals, and schools, so people are exposed at work, during medical care, and at school, then come home to more exposure. There is no break. Wireless infrastructure has expanded enormously since 1996, and families now live with constant exposure they never chose. Children Children absorb more RF radiation than adults, as their brains are not yet fully myelinated, which impacts their neurological development. Exposure during pregnancy not only affects the mother's health during and after pregnancy, but can cause irreversible damage to the developing baby. As a teacher, I see how much RF exposure children have during the school day, including from Wi-Fi routers in classrooms and RF sources placed near playgrounds. Current limits do not protect them. Request The Commission's limits and testing procedures are based on preventing tissue heating. This does not reflect the effects of RF radiation on cellular function, and it does not represent the increased risk for children and pregnant women. I ask the Commission to study the biological effects of RF radiation on cellular function, not only heating. Rather than setting new exposure limits, I ask that this exposure be avoided altogether where people live, learn, and heal: RF installations should not be placed near homes, schools, childcare facilities, hospitals, or playgrounds. I also ask that every installation, including antennas on power lines and utility poles, be listed in a searchable public registry.

My life has been horribly effected by wireless technology. The lives of millions of people are being harmed on a daily basis by today's wireless world. FCC's RF exposure guidelines for the omnipresence of wireless devices and technological developments were last updated in 1996. This is the same as thirty years ago that leaded gasoline was still considered OK. Thirty years ago cell phones were bulky, expensive devices primarily used for making calls and sending texts. The cell phones were so expensive very few people used them. Now, the world is full of wireless technology. The fact that the FCC has not updated the guidelines is the same as still allowing people to smoke in the neonatal (new babies) area of the hospital and on airplanes. It is vital to update the exposure guidelines. Please refer to BioInitiative Report (2012, with Subsequent Research Updates): Updated Research Summaries – Collection of scientific research concerning neurological effects, oxidative stress, DNA damage, genetic effects, and electromagnetic sensitivity. Individual summaries have different update dates, including 2022. The FCC's job is to protect consumers. Currently consumers are being harmed on a constant basis by wireless technology. It is the FCC's job to fix this terrible problem.

To whom it may concern: Oct. 13 2026 In 2018, we moved into our home in Geneva, Florida. My wife almost immediately started having convulsions with blackouts multiple times daily. Because she had brain surgery before, she went back to her Neurologist. After extensive testing and trying many medications, The Neurologist. could not identify a cause. Nothing stopped the convulsions or the blackouts. Her days were reduced to getting up every morning and sitting down with a bowl of ice water in her lap. She would place a cold, wet washcloth on her forehead between convulsions. This went on all day long for months. She was physically exhausted which caused memory loss and disorientation. During this time, a close friend sent an email containing a video of a woman talking about Smart Meters used by electric companies that might be a fire hazard. We were unaware of Smart Meters. After watching the video, we checked to see if we had one on our home. We did. It was located on the exterior of our bedroom wall, about eighteen inches from our heads where we slept. We looked online for our power company's website. There the Power Company explained that the meter was transmitting (pulsing) RF signals a few seconds a day and was harmless. I was an aviation electronics technician specializing in airborne side-looking radar and infrared photography in the Navy. Upon leaving the Navy, I worked in the Telephony Industry during the development and deployment of wireless telephone systems and telephones. So, I questioned the frequency of signals the Smart Meter was transmitting and how often they were being transmitted. I rented a NARDA SRM-3006 meter. With it, I was able to measure the number of transmissions and the magnitude of the pulses which were in the 10,000 µW/m² range. Also, I saw when the transmissions occurred. The transmissions were numerous and spread throughout the day and night (24/7). My wife had titanium sutures implanted in her head from her previous brain surgery. I was concerned that these signals might be triggering the convulsions. The family shielded another bedroom in our house to shelter her. The convulsions with blackouts ceased. Many doctors expressed doubt about her condition and refused to help. She decided go back to see the GP who had been her doctor for many years, hoping he might understand. After explaining to him precisely what had occurred, he began to laugh. We asked what was funny and he explained. He had been having heart palpitations and periods of shortness of breath. After testing, he was unable to find a cause. It was then he learned that his office was located directly under the WI-FI router for the entire multi-storied building his office was in. He had his office rooms painted with shielding paint. His cardiac symptoms diminished. Because the RF signals were rapidly increasing with newer technology, when my wife went out into public communities, she began having more intense and longer lasting convulsions with blackouts. I began having to take her to the hospital to gain control. She started wearing a silver lined head covering to help shield herself from the waves. Because the RF signals were becoming endemic, we decided to relocate to a safer environment. In 2023 , we purchased an old farm in West Virginia's Quiet Zone. Even here she has to use shielding due to the wide use of wireless devices, IE, cell phones which can produce 5G signals in ranges of 350,000 to over 2,500,000 µW/m² range, WI-FI signals over 10,000 µW/m² , Bluetooth devices with signals over 6,500 µW/m² , and the deployment of 5G frequencies. Yes, even here in the “quiet zone” many people never turn off their cell phones. Although their phones will not work, they still transmit RF signals. So, the use of higher frequencies still penetrate her shielding and can again cause convulsions and blackouts. Here are two examples: Due to a product recall my CPAC machine was replaced in June 2024. The new machine was installed immediately and put into use. During the night, my wife had severe convulsions. Using a Safe and Sound Pro II Broadband RF Meter, I was able to find the source of the signals that triggered her convulsions. My new CPAC unit was emitting Bluetooth signals in the 4000 to 6000 µW/m² range. I was able to turn the Bluetooth off using the CPAP controls. My wife had two nights of peaceful sleep. On the third night, she had severe convulsions again. With the meter, I learned that the new CPAP unit had independently turned the Bluetooth signals on again. Consequently, I had to repeatedly reset the Bluetooth controls to off prior to the third day automatic re-activation. In September 2025, I was visiting a neighbor. Because of their home WIFI, my wife sat in our car. His wife went out to speak with my wife. While they were conversing, my wife began to convulse. Our neighbor's wife ran back to her house and told me my wife was not well. I quickly saw what was happening and removed my wife from the area. I went back to the neighbor's home with the meter. The neighbor's wife had recently replaced her hearing aids. Her new hearing aids were both emitting Bluetooth signals in the 1050- 2000 µW/m² range. Recently, a physicist in Canada suggested my wife try using two silver lined shields (one over the other) and for the most part it now blocks the higher frequencies. We do not know if she will be able to shelter from satellite waves which are in the 18 GHz frequency range which can be detected with the Safe and Sound Pro mm Wave Broadband RF Meter 20 – 40 GHz. These increasing high frequencies and their extensive deployment causes my wife to live in isolation and be constantly shielded. Thank you for putting public health first. Meter #'s used: Safe and Sound Pro II Broadband RF Meter 200 MHz – 8 GHz Acoustimeter RF Meter Model AM-10 200 MHz – 8 GHz Safe and Sound Pro mm Wave Broadband RF Meter 20 – 40 GHz WIFI signals in medical waiting Rm: 5200 µW/m² Cell phone activated using 5G: 2,5000,000 µW/m²

I know someone who suffers from exposure for almost 20 years. It is time that this be changed now. She can't sleep anywhere there is wifi, so it makes it hard or impossible for her to travel.

I have both MCAS and EDS (both medically diagnosed by doctors) and non ionizing radiation/wifi/Bluetooth trigger horrendous neurological, vestibular, nerve, dysautonomua symptoms. I have become disabled as a result. There are literally zero studies showing safety and again literally thousands of scientific studies showing human harm and detailing that harm. Radiation exposure limits in the US are TEN TIMES that of Italy. What ever happened to “First Do No Harm”? I could go on but I don’t know how many characters I have left. All I can say is that irradiating people without any scientific or medical studies is crazy.

Children's schools should not be located near mobile phone towers or TV towers or electrical transmission power lines. And the powerful Wi-Fi routers often used in schools should not be near any children's desks. California officially issued guidelines advising of mobile phone dangers, warning of increased risk of brain cancer and other health problems, and that children’s developing brains could be at greater risk. The biggest source of RF exposure for most people is using a mobile phone next to the head. You can reduce RF exposure a lot by using the phone's speaker and holding the phone farther away from your head, or using wired headphones say neuro-oncologists & public heath experts. The city council in Berkeley California passed a law that requires retailers to tell consumers how far away their phone should be held. The European Union recommends wired Internet rather than wireless in schools. France also banned WiFi routers in nursery and daycare centers, and restricted elementary school WiFi to only when in use for education. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) states in an open letter to school superintendents, “There is a consistent, emerging science that shows people, especially children who are more vulnerable due to developing brains and thinner skulls, are being affected by the increasing exposure to wireless radiation.” In 2021 a New Hampshire report outlined health risks of cell phone towers in residential neighborhoods. Scientific American reported a study of mobile phone exposure and cancer in rats: www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-cell-phone-radiation-study-reignites-cancer-questions/ According to Dr. Joel Moskowitz (UC/Berkeley), "The study's results reinforce the need for more stringent regulation of radiofrequency radiation and better disclosure of the health risks associated with wireless technologies." Dr. Martha Herbert, a Harvard Pediatrician, wrote in this letter to Montgomery County Schools "there are thousands of papers...that document adverse health and neurological impacts of EMF/RFR"..."Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation from wifi and cell towers can exert a disorganizing effect on the ability to learn and remember, and can also be destabilizing to immune and metabolic function"..."Powerful industrial entities have a vested interest in leading the public to believe that EMF/RFR, which we cannot see, taste or touch, is harmless, but this is not true". The American Academy of Pediatrics in 2013 requested a review of EMF radiation emissions from technology devices, citing impact on children. Some schools have reduced WiFi exposure of children: https://ehtrust.org/tag/wifi-in-schools/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/school-wifi-networks-could-put-12602188 In 2011 the World Health Organization classified cell phones (and other wireless devices) as a possible carcinogen due to RF emissions. In 2013 Dr. Anthony Miller from University of Toronto School of Public Health recommended that based on new research, radio frequency (RF) exposure should be reclassified as a probable carcinogen. Regarding power lines: Researchers have found health effects, including a doubling of leukemia rates associated with living in AC magnetic field strengths greater than 4.0 mG. www.emfs.info/health/leukaemia/ www.powerwatch.org.uk/elf/overview.asp www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10944614 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20877339 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11055621 The Swedish National Energy Department issued an advisory warning that schools, playgrounds, and day-care centers should not be sited near power lines, and that children should not be subjected for long periods every day to AC magnetic fields over 3.0 mG.

Hello from Finland! I'm writing about my own experience of reacting to wireless devices and networks. When 4G was launched in Finland, "a net stick" was installed on my laptop, through which I could access the internet. At the same time, I bought an iPhone. My face was always red and hot after using Internet via laptop and after a few months my left hand and my right hand index finger started to hurt and tingle after using the iPhone as well. Then, the operator offered a tablett that has internet connection and would also work as a server for my laptop. That tablett screen was so electrical, that it stack in my fingers almost like there was some kind of glue on it. I discussed many times with the operator about this strange fenomen, but nobody knew, what was the problem. Well, after receiving my EMF meter, the picture got crystal clear! I haven't used that tablett since. At that time I went on business trips to different cities in Finland and at the same time there could be up to 5 mobile phones in the car, several of which were in use at the same time. On such trips, I suffered from really severe fatigue, nausea and headaches, and the confused feeling could continue even days after such a trip. I connected the nausea to the mobile phone being on, as I once turned on the phone in the car and immediately a wave of nausea attacked me. The difference between the real car sickness and EMF sickness is clear; car sickness makes you vomit, EMF sickness gets better, once you exit the vehicle and the metal box filled with EMFR and you don't vomit. The feeling however starts in the back of your scull for both conditions. Later on, I even unknowingly tested the effect of the phone and noticed that, for example the arrival of a text message while driving causes a rapid, stabbing headache, and the ringing of the phone causes nausea and a dizzy sensation in the head even before the phone makes a sound. One time, my friend had, according to my wish, switched off mobile data, but she got a normal call during the drive and she just turned the voice down, but let the phone ring for a long time, because she didn't understand, that I really suffer because of it. I was about to throw up and faint for the rest of the journey. I had to roll the window down to keep us on the road. When we got home, she noticed, that the phone had rang almost 15 minutes in a row. I was absolutely wrecked for two days afterwards. After that episode, phones are allowed in my car only in aeroplane mode. I can feel, when I am driving in the middle of two cell towers, because I get nausea and my eyes start to wander on the road ahead. Usually I also feel sudden weakness in my shoulders and arms and I need to open the window. Also some cold sweat may appear. That is scary. GPS is a BIG "NO NO" for me. I get really dizzy if somebody wants to check our location while driving. In public spaces with Wifi or WLAN, I feel a strange nervousness in my body and I find it difficult to concentrate on what I read in the library, for example. I feel almost like before a migraine, when at least I have the feeling that my head does not "belong to the body", but is somehow separate. It's difficult to explain. In places like this, even in schools where I have worked as a substitute, it is difficult to find words and I feel awkward, not relaxed. At home, we don't have wireless networks and I've been able to reduce exposure. When I sleep, my phone is in another room and mobile data turned off. I've tried to talk to my children about the disadvantages of mobile phones and instructed them to keep their phone's mobile data turned off if they have it in their pockets. My children didn't get their phones until they were 11 and 12 years old, but both of them are already hooked on their phones after 3-4 years, and this is very worrying. I have manually chosen 4G in my phone and I get symptoms if only 5G phones are in the same room with me. Sometimes after such a day I get fatigue and even heart palpitations. I'm aftaid, that 6G will finally break my health. Besides my EMF sensitivity I have been absolutely healthy all my life and have no medication. I have, however experienced problems with mold in my work place some 20 years ago and I have understood, that many people sensitive for EMF have similar background. I'm 53 years old. Please, make this idiotic "progress" just STOP!!! You are killing people with your so called "safety limits" , that are from the last century and have nothing to do with safety of living creatures! People in Finland and all around the world are frying because of your lousy "science". EMF harms human body in many ways, the heating effect is not the only one. This should be clear by now!!! Mr. Kennedy, thank you for all your efforts in this and many other vital matters in this crazy world we're living in!

October 6, 2026 Hello: We reside in Fort Lauderdale Florida. This is in regard to my own Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome. Because I was unable to sleep for six months, we decided to disconnect the wifi at night. When we found that helpful we changed to ATT so now our home is completely hard wired. We had Florida Power and Light remove our Smart Meter. I purchased 2 gallons of EMF shielding paint for the bedroom, as we pick up the neighbor signals. I bought faraday cloth for the sliding glass door. I sewed a faraday cloth hoodie apron for when we travel and stay in hotels. Three years ago I discovered I also experience a strong vertigo when we shop Office Depot. It was also happening at church on Sundays so we had to change churches. The vertigo starts about 10 to 15 minutes of entering the building and takes just as long to stop when we depart. That is my story. It is a good thing I am retired because it would not be possible to work in a building when the vertigo is as strong as it has been.

I am Daniel Vasku, a Dutch citizen, trained in media and image technology, with a lifelong love for technology. After moving to New Zealand I helped organise festivals and events, doing everything from my smartphone, with me 24-7. While setting up wireless networks and video systems for these festivals, I built a mesh network at a rural venue out of consumer Linksys routers. One day, after hours configuring a stack of four active routers, I felt a strange spastic tingling in my right arm, the one nearest the stack. Over the following summer I developed persistent nose congestion, brain fog, painful joints and fatigue. I assumed it was hay fever, but it made no sense that the symptoms lasted for months while we travelled to completely different places. The turning point came in Golden Bay NZ, at the home of a friend who had deliberately restricted his Wi-Fi. While he explained this, I realised that every time I switched my phone on, I felt a brief stabbing pain in my brain. Minutes later the sting returned, and my girlfriend had just powered her phone on. That confirmation made me take the possibility seriously. For the next two or three years I stayed skeptical, but the pattern held: whenever my phone and Wi-Fi were off and I avoided close exposure, I felt much better. In a shared home where Wi-Fi was kept off except when needed, I repeatedly told housemates it was on when they were sure it wasn't, and I was always right. I learned to trust the specific head pressure that came with wireless signals. A few years ago I visited family in Europe, and my condition worsened dramatically: relentless headaches, growing joint pain, visible decline. Eventually I could no longer function, and a friend urged me back to New Zealand. In a small, reception-free valley in Auckland I recovered almost immediately. So I bought my first meter, a Cornet. In a room where everything was powered down, it revealed a pulsing signal coming from my Apple Pencil, whose Bluetooth pulses around the clock. After boxing it up outside the room, I slept that night, for the first time in ages, without the head pressure that so often became a full migraine. With renewed energy I started a sauerkraut business at a Sunday market. It went well, but every market day was followed by a migraine, and recovery grew from one day to two, three, then a full week of pain. When the owner of a new venue told me a cell tower was going on the roof with strong indoor repeaters, I realised I had to quit. When savings ran out, I moved to a rural community in the Coromandel. There, with almost no cell reception, my health picked up tremendously. But my sensitivity kept increasing. One or two hours in town cost me severe headaches the next day. I tried shielding: first a silver-coated veil, which helped, then a full radiation suit from China made of stainless steel and cotton, which let me shop without next-day migraines, at the cost of looking odd, overheating badly in sunlight, and sensitivity to AC electric fields. Even that was not enough. People using a phone in a neighbouring room triggered headaches before I even saw the device, and I was always right. I began carrying my meter constantly as an alarm system, because by the time I felt pain it was already too late. About five years ago my condition worsened again despite shielding. My meter showed levels higher than before, and the timing coincided with the switch-on of 5G in the town. I found a new community in Golden Bay in the South Island, verified it with more sensitive equipment like the Safe & Sound ProII, which registers the far lower levels at which I now react, and moved there. Today I can function outdoors with a clear head and no pain. But I can visit town only briefly once a week, still paying one or two days of migraine even with the suit, and I live in near-total social isolation, a hard adjustment for a social person. And with all pervasive wireless radiation, it's difficult to access healthcare. I am de facto an EMF refugee. An example: a friend came for tea and swore he had left his phone in the car. Within minutes I became nauseous and started stuttering. My meter found active AirPods in his pocket emitting about 16,000 microwatts per square metre. In ten minutes, from two metres away, they cost me my train of thought. I am desperately looking for an EMF sanctuary where I can function as a human being among people who keep wireless off. In the meantime I have helped many others with similar symptoms, using calibrated meters to find and eliminate sources, and it is clear that this problem is growing. I am deeply troubled by what this means for children, and for humans, animals, plants and insects. We are gambling with the future of humanity in what may be the most irresponsible open-air experiment ever undertaken. The more people learn about Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome, the more will recognise their own unexplained suffering in it.

I am a pediatrician with over 30 years of experience. In the past 10 years I have seen an increase in adverse health effects from exposure to non-ionizing radiation in children. The effects can be profound like behavior problems, severe headaches, an inability to learn or sleep. By decreasing exposure i.e. going hardwired these children can improve and often their signs and symptoms resolve. The public safety guidelines for EMF need to be reevaluated URGENTLY and particularly for children. See the resolution adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2024 that was submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services today.