Save Our Landlines

OUR ANALOGUE COPPER LANDLINE TELEPHONES PROVIDE RELIABLE, HIGH QUALITY, AFFORDABLE VOICE SERVICE.

Help us maintain full access to our well-established and vital landline network.  


Telecom companies are planning to pull the plug on our essential landlines in favour of less-regulated, less reliable and more expensive wireless phones or Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP). They lack a sensible plan to keep people safely and reliably connected. British Telecom (BT), for example, have already been moving customers from landlines to internet connections, although they have temporarily postponed the rollout after escalating complaints from concerned customers.

BT to end landline phones sparking fears for millions of vulnerable and elderly people:  “Around six percent of households – roughly 1.5million homes – do not have access to the Internet, according to watchdog                    Ofcom.” https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/bt-end-landline-phones-sparking-25544885

Dismantling landlines will cost us our safety, health, jobs, and cut off critical emergency communications access to millions of people. We must defend our landlines from unscrupulous telecom companies and governments. If you want to keep your choice to have a reliable landline in your home or business, you need to act now:

Please sign this Call to Action, contact your MP and spread the word to friends and family. 

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-our-landlines-help-us-maintain-full-access

Re-investing in our copper telephone landline network will be beneficial to Public Health, Security and Ecology as it serves as a necessary, reliable and safe alternative to power-grid dependent, energy-hungry communications systems like VOIP and mobile phone services. There is no longer any question whether wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation – used in mobile phone communications and wireless devices – is harmful to humans and wildlife. Commonly identified health consequences of short and longer term exposures include: insomnia, headaches, cancer, autism, and other serious and life changing ailments.

Tens of thousands of scientific papers (linked herein) have cited connections to the role of EMFs in a multitude of adverse health effects, including depression, infertility, cancer, damage to DNA/gene expression, oxidative stress, pregnancy complications, melatonin production, neurological disorders, immune dysfunction, Alzheimers/dementia, leukaemia, and many, many more.


Over 1,600 scientific papers can be found here: https://www.powerwatch.org.uk/science/studies.asp

Another 4000+ studies can be found here: http://www.bioinitiative.org

And another 23,840 studies also linked here: www.EMF-portal.org

Finally, here is a recent compilation of the vast number of known biological effects: https://www.5gfrequencyfreefairbanks.org

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity close to mobile phone base stations

Lennart Hardell, Tarmo Koppel.  Electromagnetic hypersensitivity close to mobile phone base stations – a case study in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Reviews on Environmental Health. Mar 2, 2022. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2021-0169.

Abstract

A previously healthy worker developed symptoms assigned to electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) after moving to an office with exposure to high levels of anthropogenic electromagnetic fields (EMFs). These symptoms consisted of e.g. headache, arthralgia, tinnitus, dizziness, memory loss, fatique, insomnia, transitory cardiovascular abnormalities, and skin lesions. Most of the symptoms were alleviated after 2 weeks sick leave.

The highest radiofrequency (RF) field level at the working place was 1.72 V/m (7,852 μW/m2). Maximum value for extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF-EMF) from electric power at 50 Hz was measured to 285 nT (mean 241 nT). For electric train ELF-EMF at 16.7 Hz was measured to 383 nT (mean 76 nT). Exposure to EMFs at the working place could be the cause for developing EHS related symptoms. The association was strengthened by the symptom reduction outside the working place.

Conclusions

This investigation established three possible reasons for developing health symptoms associated with the EMF exposure, including the following.

  1. The working room was right below the mobile phone base station antenna, located on the roof of the building. The close proximity to these antennas caused significantly high RF radiation exposure in the working area.
  2. The working room is also positioned close to lower radiofrequency transmitter (TETRA emergency services), located on the neighboring roof of the same building.
  3. The working room was positioned within 20 m from the electric train railroad. 16 Hz magnetic field from the railroad power cable was on some instances the highest ELF MF component in the room, exceeding even the power grid 50 Hz MFs. Also, railroad power cable induced a fluctuating magnetic field in the office due to the coming and passing electric trains. As trains come and go, this introduces a change in the electric power supplied by the railroad electric cable. Consequently the magnetic field also changes in great amplitude.

In conclusion, there are at least three types of electromagnetic fields present in the working room, which cause a long term exposure to the workers. Exposure to multiple source electromagnetic fields could be the cause for developing EHS related symptoms. However, the person had been exposed to ELF-EMF also at other locations in the building, so exposure to RF-EMF seems to be the most probable cause to her developed health problems.

Open access paper: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2021-0169/html