As a fierce telecommunications activist, I research and educate about the real issues, wherever I can. There is a telecommunications ordinance that is up for revision in Santa Fe City right now.
Due to the recent proliferation of wireless and microwave technology in particular, there is a need for Santa Fe, as well as many other cities, to establish new codes for doing business with telecommunications companies. There are numerous and significant issues involved in this complex new technology to be considered. The city and public need more time to understand these issues so the city's code can be revised to serve everyone involved: telecommunications companies, the city, and the public, in the safest and most efficient way before too much infrastructure is created!!
Fiber Optic Technology is essentially an advancement in "cable technology", the next incarnation of what we know of as our "Common Carrier Protected Land Based Telephone Service."
I would like to see Santa Fe CHOOSE FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY OVER WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY for the following reasons:
Wireless technology:
1. Wireless telecommunications equipment is insecure for credit card transactions and confidential information because it can most easily be "hacked".
2. Wireless equipment has not been definitively tested for potential effects on human and animal health and does not meet Precautionary Principle standards. For the Precautionary Principle go to the Science and Environmental Health Network: www.sehn.org
3. Wireless equipment in neighborhoods is proven to drop property values up to 20%
4. Wireless technology engages electromagnetic fields and biological fields in a way that is inefficient and causes static for both the information and the biology, whereas fiber-optic technology is cleaner.
5. As wireless information signals travel through the air, they interfere with the communications frequencies of birds, bees and other animals causing "static" or "interruptions" as well as biological processes of microscopic organisms which form the basis of the earth's ecosystems.
6. Studies are increasingly showing that these microwave and distributed wireless networks DO AFFECT BIOLOGICAL LIFE AND HUMAN HEALTH in a negative way including restlessness, depression, attention deficit, and accentuation & extenuation of debilitating chronic health conditions in humans. Interestingly, there has been an alarming increase in the incidence of brain cancer, particularly among young people using cell phones.
7. The city needs more time to address issues of property value, antennae placement, public process, public health concerns, environmental health concerns, efficiency issues, security issues, and addressing NEW UNTESTED TECHNOLOGY as it comes into the city. Do we simply put it on our electric poles, in our neighborhoods UNTESTED, or is there a process that we go through to test the safety of a device before we place it in our neighborhoods?
Fiber Optic Technology:
1. In fiber optic cable, information travels as light over shielded glass fiber, which is far more efficient than copper wire such as used in coaxial cable, ethernet or phone wire and it does not pick up static as copper is prone to do nor does it generate an electro-magnetic field like copper wire or wireless technology that can have negative biological effects as mentioned above. It is a "cleaner" and "greener" technology.
2. Private companies or the city itself could deliver fiber optic technology directly to homes for the same price we currently pay for copper-run, cable-based DSL internet service through Qwest or Comcast at 100 times the capacity. No joke - fiber optic cable can transmit 100 MB compared to around 8 MB through copper wire DSL service.
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3. City Link, an Albuquerque-based company, is currently waiting to establish a contract with the City of Santa Fe under the revised telecommunications code, to provide businesses, residents and city facilities with fiber optic service.
4. We deserve the most effective, efficient, healthiest, greenest technology available, even if it's initial cost is higher, as the long term and hidden costs of inferior technologies will eventually become apparent. I believe fiber optics is the superior current technology.
5. As a well-researched activist I believe Fiber-optic infrastructure needs to be co-owned or shared or the city needs to include a clause in the contract with the fiber company, that we can purchase the fiber, as a city or a public telecommunications utility, able to be "leased" or "borrowed" by any company or individual.
6. Fiber optic technology runs in under ground, largely pre-existing sewer lines.
7. The city has historically made individual contracts with Qwest for common carrier telephone service, then Comcast for Cable Service when that developed. Fiber optics is the next level of common carrier service.
Please write to your city councilors, asking them to support an agreement between the city and City Link to begin laying fiber optic infrastructure for Santa Fe.
Also, please attend our Town Hall Meeting on THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 7-9 PM at the GENOVEVA CHAVEZ COMMUNITY CENTER, 3221 WEST RODEO ROAD.
Please join me in studying the effects of microwave radiation and wireless and cell phone technology on human health before purchasing cell phone technology for your family or establishing such a city-wide system. Lets use this new technology with care.
Thank you for your time and care and please pass this on to friends and neighbors.
Your personal telecommunications researcher,
Azlan
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