Variety of Information on Wireless Communications Facilities and Technologies

• Health Effects on Humans This is a summary of information, including links, relating to the health-effects, potential and measured, on living organisms caused by the types of RF radiation emitted by WCF such as cellular telephone systems.
• World Health Organization International EMF Report ...some of this research has suggested that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) may produce a broad range of health effects such as cancer, changes in behaviour, memory loss, Parkinsons and Alzheimer's diseases. While insufficient research has been conducted to substantiate these effects, sufficient concerns and perceptions of risks have been raised that there is an urgent need for an accelerated programme to provide scientific consensus and clarification of these issues.
• Cell Tower Static In "Cell Tower Static," Cathy Bergman-Venezia discusses the intense debate over the safe siting of cellular telephone transmission facilities. The communications industry is taking no prisoners in their pursuit of the advancement of their technology, ...
• Towerkill.com This excellent site highlights the hazard to birds posed by towers. It also provides a state-by-state map depicting the distribution of existing towers and their heights.
• PCS is Changing Wireless: It May Become a Battleground This document discusses the question "Why is wireless an issue?" and states that Consultants cannot serve carriers and local governments at the same time ... too much is riding on their advice.
• Medina, WA effectively utilized two, six-month moratoria on WCF permitting and construction. This use of a WCF moratorium was also upheld in a court of law, as this Wired News story describes.
• Families for Appropriate Cell Tower Siting... a reference guide to assist in the distribution of information concerning communication/cell towers, cell phones. Information concerning the health effects, zoning debates, school issues, legal issues, state, national, and local issues.
• Alternatives to Towers! New and imposing tower structures are not necessary in many cases to permit adequate deployment of wireless communications services. This company's product offerings call into question the legitimacy of proposals stating that towers are required.
• Telecomm Law and Policy ResourcesA legal site whose pages include the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996, communications law and policy links, Internet regulation analysis and a variety of briefs and other documents.
• Separation of at least five times tower height If guy-wired tower structures are employed, this document demonstrates why a separation of at least five times the tower's height from any adjoining property line or public roadway is required to ensure public health, safety, and general welfare in the presence of guy-wired WCF.
• The convenience of wireless communication drives a big industry. The advertising highlights all the benefits, but never talks about the hazards or adverse effects. When unspecified technical hazards are cited to prevent such towers from being built, people are labeled paranoid and ridiculed. However, there are real hazards, one from mechanical failure of the tower, the other from radiation in the microwave frequency range.
• Landmark Virginia Beach, VA caseThis ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, upheld the ruling that towers may be denied based solely on citizens' complaints. Several proposed WCF were denied because they are incompatible with the residential character of the neighborhood. The Court's judgment states that these denials neither prohibited the provision of wireless services, nor discriminated among providers and placed the burden of proof on the service providers to demonstrate that the zoning authority discriminated unreasonably.
• Biological Effects of Radiofrequency and Microwave RadiationIdentifies an amazing variety of significant human health effects, most of which are only now being researched. It also identifies problems with extrapolation of old data to present-day conditions, especially those experienced by human beings in the presence of wireless communications equipment.
• Will safety guidelines soon include accumulated exposure limits?This document presents evidence demonstrating the need for inclusion of accumulated exposure limits as part of EMF Exposure Safety Guidelines. Typically only limited-duration, or peak, wireless emissions exposure limits are specified.
• Meeting the Challenges of Zoning in The Information Age: Planning for Wireless Communications Facilities Tim Thompson's Ball State University thesis serves as an aid to local government officials by providing a model ordinance dealing specifically with wireless communications facilities.
• Plain Wireless The FCC and the wireless industry have collaborated on a campaign to make many more wireless communications services available to the general public. But these services will depend on local government accepting many more "towers" in the locations where industry wants them. So far, cities and counties have resisted industry's rapid deployment tactics.
• Personal experience and a compendium of links created by a mother of three children. Relates an effort to block siting of a WCF at a school and also presents a number of useful links.
• Cellular Tower Coalition This is an exellent site with lots of links to information about communication towers.
• Telecommunications Information This site provided by Washington State has lots of links and information about towers.
• FCC Frequently Asked Questions regarding Cellular Regulations This document is published by the Federal Communications Commission to provide answers to many common questions regarding Federal regulation of Wireless Communications.
• Federal Court Ruling Upholds Denial of Contested AT&T SiteZbigniew Brezenski won't have a tower in his backyard, at least not anytime soon. Former National Security Adviser Brezenski and former Attorney General Ed Meese were among several influential locals who fought a plan for a 100-foot monopole on property near their homes in upscale McLean, Va. When Fairfax County, Va., ruled in favor of the locals in September 1997, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. took the county to federal court. Federal district court ruled against AT&T.
• Vermont: Mugged and Unplugged While industry tells us how safe it is, and experts investigate and debate the potential effects of this burgeoning technology, citizens are expressing increased concern over the anomalies generally associated with communications systems and their siting.
• Can non ionizing radiation induce cancer? At present, despite many epidemiological and laboratory studies, the EMF-cancer connection remains controversial. Extremely low frequency fields (ELF) and radiofrequency fields (RF) are of particular importance. This review paper on the EMF-cancer association will therefore be estricted to these types of electromagnetic field.
• Discussion on WCF siting This document is in MSWord format.
• Technologies for Political Control This is a fascinating, and somewhat disturbing, examination of the technologies used for control and restraint of human populations by agencies in pursuit of political (and other) purposes. This study was delivered to the European Parliament by the Directorate General for Research on January 8, 1998. Exposes the dark side of technology and demonstrates many issues that citizens need to deal with before it is too late.