Li-Fi, fiber & alternatives

I am someone who cannot be around wireless radiation. It gives me a headache and makes me feel unwell. Once I realized that I removed all wireless devices from my home and connected everything with ethernet cables. My symptoms went away immediately. I am not alone--I know other people who have had the exact same experience. The only reason this technology has been allowed to proliferate is because the telecommunication companies are making huge profits from it. It was rolled out before any long term studies were done on it. Studies showing that it causes neurological damage have been suppressed or ignored. It causes serious health effects for some people and this needs to be recognized. It's about time this industry be held accountable.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of an EMF DISABLED patient, parent /my daughter is also EMF harmed, I am a healthcare professional-Family Nurse Practitioner of 42 years, and a researcher / author and Anti-EMF advocate, & concerned member of the public. I had to leave my medical clinic 5 years ago because the landlord put WiFi Routers above and next to my clinic. Then the local electric company EWEB put a SMART Meter on the building. I became light headed, headaches, nausea, my blood pressure spiked and I became unsteady on my feet with fuzzy thinking. I could no longer see patients in my medical practice. I moved my Nurse Practitioner clinic home and had to let go my 3 staff. This rather wrecked my finances. My home had a safe analog electric meter, and I had thrown out my cell phone and got wired modems and a $3,500 Power Perfect device on my electric system to take out all dirty electricity from the power lines coming into my house. That worked until the dread Eugene Water and Electric company forced me and everyone else in town to get a digital SMART METER ON THE HOUSE. Five ex-military “Security people” from EWEB appeared and 3 of them were in body armor with a taser on one hip and a pistol on the other and told me they were here to take your meter lady”. Fabulous intimidation, I was 74 years of age were they expecting I would wrestle them to the ground? The day they put the SMART meter on my home I immediately had high pitched buzzing in my head ,chest pain, my blood pressure spiked, headaches and I was unsteady on my feet. I could not stay in the home so I slept in a friend’s shed with no power. I called EWEB the next day to see if they could give me another type of meter. They sent another armed guard and a bucket truck out and told me I had to keep this meter that I had or they could cut the power at the pole…...So they cut my power on Sept 27, 2024 because I could not live in a house with a Smart meter and be EMF Disabled. Two years later I am running off a solar generator and had to change out $55,000 in getting all new natural gas appliances for a refrigerator, heating stove, water heater,solar panels.My oven does not work since it is electric and I have been cooking all my meals on a Coleman camp stove for 2 years on a covered deck in all weather. I am now 75. Unfortunately I am still not safe living here due to more EMFs/ cell towers and my neighbor’s homes emitting RF and it was my “Forever home” of 20 years and it looks like I am to be forced out of here. I have one 30 watt non LED light bulb in the whole home that runs off a solar generator and my computer. I spend my evenings with candles or REI back packing lanterns for light in the home since the power was cut at the pole 2 years ago. I still have high pitched buzzing in my head, fuzzy thinking when it is high with awful fatigue that comes in waves. I can pick up 16 of my neighbor’s WiFi routers, and their SMART meters & a baby monitor on my EMF /RF meter. I have NOT slept through the night in 3 years now since the SMART meter roll out. I NEVER wake up refreshed no matter how many hours I am trying to sleep. I have come to hate nights due to the constant buzzing. My white blood count has dropped due to the EMF exposure and I am working myself up for auto immune problems and it has stirred up my in-remission Epstein Barr from 30 years ago. I now have all leather grounding shoes, 4 grounding mats to sit on, a grounding mat on my bed that is grounded on my mattress, I have grounding silver thread sheets and a $1,300 SILVER thread Faraday canopy over my bed. I have put aluminum radiant barrier on my bedroom walls/ ceiling and floor and have put 2 layers of aluminum screen over my bedroom windows and the mesh is grounded with a metal rod. All of this blocks some of the EMFs/ RF, but not enough. On the www.AntennaeSearch.com website my home comes up with 161 large 5G towers and 492 small cell antenna within 3 miles of my home. They have a new 5G 500 foot tower 0.2 miles from my home with 3 telecoms on it, I can see the tower from my back deck. When it was 4G it did not give me symptoms .“They” put in 15 large 400-500 foot towers during Covid when people were not looking/ distracted ,along the railroad track which curves so all 15 of these Damn towers are ¾ of a mile from my home. I am being COOKED and I feel rotten. If I go out into the country away from cell phone towers ALL the buzzing in my head goes away and my cognition totally clears up and I have energy again. The RF/ EMF/ 5G towers & cell phones and wifi routers made me sick. They are an invisible toxin that is permeating my walls, ceiling and windows and my yard, that I no longer enjoy being in since the buzzing in my head is worse outside. At 75 I have to find a new home.

Copper wires are a lifeline for people in Mt Baldy Ca (91759). Cell phones don't work here if there is a power outage.Cell towers don't reach us here and we depend nd DSL technology which does not work during power outages.

I have had issues with emf/rf/elfs/uhfs mostly wifi and 5g/6g. I noticed I was fatigued, I had eye twitches, (nerve issues) and heart pressure/inflammation. It got 10 times worse after the covid injections. I now have everything hardwired in my home for communications. I got a router that allows you to turn wifi on or off (sometimes need it for a few minutes here and there). I shut my phone data/gps/Bluetooth off unless I need it, then it gets shut off. I've had to purchase silver lined materials to make Faraday cages. I've had to purchase silver lined small blankets. I use shungite to help mitigate the frequencies. There must be a way to put the information on a frequency band that agrees with our system and our cells.

I have used ethernet cables for multiple years. I am not using cell phones or WiFi or any other RF-emitting devices at all and I explained that I still have what neurologists describe as Aura's, Abscences and Drop attacks at a tiny fraction of what WiFi Routers emit: only 3mW/m². I have to stay in an environment where power density is 1µW/m² or less to be symptom free. Todays limits said to be save by ICNIRP and other Organizations base on the 'heating effect'. There are countless of other health effects, I have explained one. Please agree that the limits are too high by a factor 200 or even (in my case 10 000 000). Reducing the RF-Power density to 100µW/m² must be the goal. Thank you.

Bonjour Au printemps 2020, lors de l'installation des antennes 4/5 G, j'ai ressentit dans des picotements partout dans le corps. Nous habitons à 800 m des antennes. Les picotements sont devenus incessants et intolérables et de nouveaux symptômes sont apparus. J'ai découvert que cela était lié à l’électrosensibilité quand j'ai commencé à en parler autour de moi. Une amie m'a dit que peut être cela pouvait être dû aux ondes. J'ai refusé cette éventualité pendant 1an et demi jusqu'au jour où l’été 2023, les enfants jouaient sur les tablettes avec le Wifi. J'ai eu la sensation d’un étouffement. Même si je respirai à grande bouffée, j'avais la sensation que l'oxygène ne rentrait plus dans mes poumons. Je me suis rendue dans la cave, car je savais qu’en bas, avec le thermo-reflecteur le téléphone ne captait pas. Et ma respiration est revenue. Je suis remontée, j’ai éteins la Wifi, et les étouffements ont cessé. C'est à partir de ce moment que j'ai réalisé que cela venait des ondes. Liste des symptômes ressentis sur une échelle de 1 à 10: – Picotements dans tout le corps par vague : 10 – « black-out » du cerveau : 3 – défaillance de la mémoire, perte des mots. : 5 – Larsen bourdonnement (comme si j'avais la tête dans un micro-onde) : 8 – Vertiges, perte d'équilibre : 5 – tremblement, crampes : 5 – sensation d'étouffement : 2 – Palpitations cardiaque: 4 – Trouble de la vision, flash lumineux : 5 – cystites, difficulté à uriner : 8 – raideur de la nuque : 7 – insomnies : 10 Les sources qui déclenchent les symptômes : – ONDES WIFI et téléphonie mobile, ondes 4/5 G, BLUETOOTH – Lampes à led Détection : J'ai investit dans un appareil mesureur d'ondes basique qui calcule le champ électromagnétique des appareils dans la maison. Aujourd'hui : les sorties sont difficiles, même pour aller voir le médecin. Je ne peux plus me rendre en ville, dans les commerces, dans des endroits publics. Mon travail est lourdement impacté ainsi que ma vie au quotidien. Je passe plusieurs heures par jour dans la cave. J'ai eu RDV avec un neurologue qui m'a dit : " Ca ne m'intéresse pas." Nous pensons à un déménagement dans une zone blanche. Mon médecin m'a conseillé de consulter également un psychologue, afin d'établir un bilan psychologique, m'a donné des comprimés anti dépresseurs, alors que j'ai juste besoin que ça soit reconnu. Je suis soutenue par mon entourage familial proche, même si au départ, la compréhension fût difficile. Les enfants jouent maintenant sur internet par le câble ethernet. Nos téléphones sont en mode avion. Mon état de santé psychologique est assez troublé, dû à l'incompréhension de certaines personnes. (moquerie, colère, désintérêt...). Aujourd'hui je travaille à l'acceptation de mon état et tente de rétablir un équilibre, afin de faire perdurer une vie quotidienne, sociale et professionnelle plus épanouie. J'ai pour ambition de monter un collectif pour rassembler des témoignages et permettre aux personnes de comprendre les dangers liés aux ondes. J'ai rencontré plusieurs personnes ayant une similitude dans les symptômes autour de moi. Je demande à l'ARS Bretagne, de faire remonter au service de santé public national mon témoignage. Ainsi, le but de mon témoignage est l'encouragement à la construction de structures médicales spécialisées en France et à la formation des médecins sur les troubles liés à l'éléctro-sensibilité, de prévoir des installations d'habitations en Zones Blanches, et la réduction des émissions des antennes de téléphonies mobiles / internet dans les villes et les villages. J'envisage de rejoindre une liste de plaignant afin de mener une action en justice commune contre les opérateurs en téléphonie mobile et réseau internet. Je vous remercie de votre lecture et de l'intérêt que vous pourrez considérer à mon histoire.

Not a scientist and don't have any studies to tout, but as an opinion of a health-conscious American woman, I take precautions against extra EMF, RF and wireless radiation. We chose our house location because it is not located by a cell tower, we chose a manual electric meter instead of wireless, we have hardwired our home for wireless Internet and so on. I think with time and money, future studies will show these frequencies do more harm than good. I also think aesthetically, cell towers are polluting our beautiful landscape-there has to be another way to regulate towers and to transmit service. Thank you.

Dear HHS I am writing you that you conduct a full review of Cellular Tower Radiation. My plea includes the visible spectrum as well. It cannot be understated that such a study be undertaken. The Telecommunucations Act is preposterous in excluding health and environmental concerns in consideration of Cellular Communication Facilities. In fact the tolerance level for total radiation is the highest in the world. This is unacceptable; there has now been much study around the world in which human health issues (cancer rates etc) are markedly higher in vicinity of cellular facilities. India, of all places for instance has even provided maps over their dense population centers showing this correlation. There have also been studies indicating disruption to wildlife in multiple ways. I fear that even we are affected living in a good neighborhood because 5G (so called ‘low radiation’) radiation towers have been placed in a grid, while our house is not adjacent to one, I have been told there is nothing you can do if one is. As a Senior. I am not so worried as toward the end of my life my total life exposure may not total enough to be a factor in my decline but now with the cellular proliferation children today are the ones at risk for long term exposure. Is that not obvious when you see cellular transmission shields on top of apt buildings (next to children sleeping in bedrooms) in dense urban areas? It is a shame that our approval-guidelines for so many things are only based on immediate effect but long term exposure is not, so if something doesn’t kill you or effect you immediately it must be harmless. How could Glyphosate have been deemed harmless and approved if the effects of exposure were revealed? Likewise with Teflon, or PFases. I also take exception to the Strobing lights required on cell towers which exceed 200’. All are such eyesores to our landscape and our night skies which we need for peace and serenity instead of this growing phobia. Many of our most notable scenic landmarks and even mountaintops have been literally destroyed by such towers with 24/7 flashing lights. The worse is Sandia peak, Albuquerque NM with many others as well. Do we have any respect for anything anymore? I feel HHS should examine the detrimental effects on mental health by this. In addition the effects on wildlife esp in respect to migration patterns is needed. And there are now even congressional bills proposed to increase the density of cell towers nationwide and would give the FCC total dictatorial control over their placement. Yes there is an answer to much of this and that does not mean a million satellites marring the rest of our night skies and as well for the entire world. And toward the benefit of Americas first minted trillionaire! Fiber optic cable is the best choice. It is cheap, already widespread and can be cheaply installed underground everywhere. Local WiFis can easily be set up everywhere. And today why should cell towers need these offensive strobe lights, cannot airplanes be alerted to towers through nonvisible means? Please help our technology truly serve us and not for its own sake but for ours. Peter C Guynn

I am an informed citizen and parent. I request that federal agencies dramatically lower current exposure limits, adopt a rigorous and enforceable precautionary principle, and fund long-term independent research. Current limits are dangerously outdated and ignore exponential exposure growth. FCC/ICNIRP limits were set in the 1990s based on a single acute thermal model, for a world with a handful of cell towers and no Wi-Fi, no smart meters, no small cells, no 5G. That world no longer exists. The ambient RF environment has not merely grown -- it has multiplied. RF levels in Los Angeles were found to be 70 times higher than the EPA's own estimate from four decades earlier. Small cell deployment alone increases downlink RF emissions by a factor of 7 to 46. Bandara & Carpenter (Lancet Planetary Health, 2018) documented "planetary electromagnetic pollution" -- an unprecedented, compounding increase, with 68% of 2,266 reviewed studies showing significant biological effects. 5G densification makes this worse: millimeter waves require an order-of-magnitude increase in antenna density, placing transmitters at street level, in front of homes, schools, and hospitals. The public is being subjected to a massive, unconsented experiment in cumulative RF exposure, and the regulatory framework has not been updated. ICBE-EMF, Environ Health 21:92 (2022): current limits are based on invalid assumptions. Melnick et al., Environ Health (2026): applying EPA's own methodology, limits are at least 200x too high for cancer risk and 8-24x too high for male reproductive toxicity. The precautionary principle must be applied -- not merely acknowledged. The precautionary principle is codified in the Rio Declaration (Principle 15), the EU Treaty (Art. 191), and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Where there are threats of serious harm, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used to postpone preventive measures. In the U.S., it has been systematically ignored in RF policy. FCC limits are set at the level of thermal injury -- the highest measurable effect -- rather than at a level that protects against non-thermal, chronic, or cumulative effects. This is a permissive threshold, not a protective one. I call on HHS to: Formally adopt the precautionary principle and ALARA standard in all RF policy; Establish interim precautionary limits at least 10-100x below current values for homes, schools, hospitals, nurseries (consistent with Council of Europe Resolution 1815/2011, which recommends 0.2 V/m -- roughly 1/100th of the current U.S. limit); Prohibit RF transmitters within 300m of schools and hospitals until long-term safety is demonstrated; Mandate transparent public disclosure of RF parameters near residential areas. Inaction is not a neutral position. When a population faces a compounding, invisible, inescapable increase in a physical agent, the only ethical course is to reduce exposure now, while research proceeds. Biological effects below current limits are well documented. IARC/WHO (2013): RF classified "possibly carcinogenic" (Group 2B). NTP (2018): "Clear evidence" of malignant cardiac schwannomas in male rats; "some evidence" for gliomas. Lai & Levitt, Rev Environ Health 39(3) (2024): oxidative stress, DNA damage, blood-brain barrier disruption below FCC limits. Bandara & Carpenter (2018): 68% of 2,266 studies showed significant biological effects. Sensitive populations require stricter protection. Children, fetuses, the elderly, and workers must be evaluated separately. Developing tissues are more vulnerable, no cradle-to-grave studies exist. The precautionary principle demands the highest protection for those who cannot consent. Cumulative exposure is unaddressed. Current limits treat each source in isolation. In reality, a resident is simultaneously exposed to multiple towers, small cells, Wi-Fi, smart meters, and 5G infrastructure. HHS must evaluate cumulative, neighborhood-level exposure. Recommendations: (a) Fund a long-term independent federal research program with prenatal/pediatric cohorts, reproductive endpoints, blinded pathology, open data; (b) Issue immediate interim guidelines (wired connections in schools, RF-off zones in bedrooms); (c) Require transparent consumer and school disclosure of RF parameters; (d) Establish a precautionary review mechanism that automatically tightens limits when new evidence of harm emerges. The ambient RF environment has increased by orders of magnitude and will increase further with 5G/6G. Current limits were set for a world that no longer exists. The precautionary principle demands we reduce exposure now, while we learn. The burden of proof belongs to the technology, not to the public. Ref: IARC Monograph 102 (2013); NTP TR 595/596 (2018); ICBE-EMF, Environ Health 21:92 (2022); Melnick et al., Environ Health (2026); Lai & Levitt,Rev Environ Health 39(3) (2024);Bandara & Carpenter,Lancet Planetary Health (2018); Council of Europe Res.1815/2011; Rio Declaration Principle 15(1992)

I am very sensitive to EMFs. The smart meter of my home was right outside of my bedroom and caused huge flares in fatigue, joint pain, ringing in my ears. and more. I am so concerned about our world and our children. Most people don't have the awareness, knowledge, or resources to make changes, or are stuck living or working near towers, smart meters, etc. There are changes that can be made! Fortunately I could opt out of the smart meter program in my area (and pay more monthly). I have my home hard wired. But I have to take great care traveling, visiting friends and family, even when selecting a church or school for my children.