For more than 30 years, Big Telecom has promised to bridge the “Digital Divide” by replacing the old copper wire connections for telephone and internet with fast and reliable fiber broadband to the office and the home for all.[i] In exchange for delivering fiber optics connections that are safe, the companies have received subsidies, lax regulations, and reductions in regulations. Captured federal agencies support Big Telecom. Instead of fiber, the industries have often substituted cheaper, inferior, and unsafe wireless services and have used these financial windfalls to pay CEOs fat cat salaries and reward shareholders well. Over the years the pattern has persisted, the companies get more revenue to deliver safe, reliable, speedy fiber and instead, the companies use the revenue and then fail to meet the promises again. In 2023, the Biden administration provided another $65 billion subsidy to bring fiber to all.[ii] But already the companies are failing to deliver on their promises.[iii] The issue of the proliferation of unsafe wireless services and the failure to deliver on fiber is a part of a larger problem: that of excessive and unhealthy levels of microwave radiation in our environment.
Many report illness from microwave radiation
Virtually everyone has been adversely affected by the excessive exposure to microwave radiation, but most do not connect their symptoms to this radiation.[iv] Some exposures can be limited in the home, as people can choose to avoid radiation emitting devices like Alexa or cordless phones. Fortunately, Wi-Fi in the home can be avoided by using a wired internet connection. Also fortunately, many utilities allow opt outs for avoiding smart meters but usually for an extra fee. More difficulties come with the ever-increasing amounts of wireless outside the home. On the road in a car or on a bike, the radiation is much more difficult to escape. The cell towers, smart meter grids, public Wi-Fi, 5G poles and other radiation sources are an infringement on bodily autonomy. People who wish to avoid this radiation cannot.[v] The creep of wireless radiation acts much like a health mandate which forces exposure even to those who wish to avoid it.
Microwave radiation can be unsafe for living things
