As I've written about before the thing about 5G in the United States that never made any sense to me is how it's being rolled out with a rate of exposure for all people, including children, many times higher than Canada, China, Russia and just about any other developed country.

Since fiber is needed to backup everything, and is PERFECTLY SAFE, even EM immune, we urged the council to wait to roll out 5G until Western and WSU could be commissioned to do safety studies on the new technology.They had staff, that was in the pockets of big telecom, meet with the big telecoms instead and took only their recommendations which they pushed through post haste. Of course, as usual, there was virtually no input taken from experts in the community. Michael did ask me for 2 e-mails, but it was just to cover his behind. Later he, and the council, would show his unbridled commitment to the big telecoms in no less than 1,000 ways.

The council is now hiding behind the, "we had to do it, the federal government made us" excuse, but as with most thing with the council this is a lie. How do I know, because I approached them about this long before the federal government made their 5G decisions. Also, many other communities have been able to stop 5G deployment, because of health concerns.

Here are the responses I received when I approached them:

Ted Carlson (Public Works Director) -- After threatening me on behalf of PSE (who makes $600 per pole for 5G small cell leases, btw) Ted told me that he wanted to "wait for wireless." We highlighted how we still needed public broadband to ensure choice, but he was uninterested in anything hat messed with the big telecoms. I'll stop here, you all know the lengths this guy has gone to, to protect the big telecoms at this point. This was before the 2016 election. They had already been in negogiations with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. They even spent $1 million of our tax money running PUBLIC FIBER, to AT&T. You know, the same fiber they keep telling you isn't usable, that you paid for. 

April Barker -- Backed Verizon and CenturyLink, and told me that she couldn't be bothered to really look into this. Even when the potential to harm children came up. She considered herself too busy.

Kelli Linville -- Had basically the same response as April, but was less professional about it because she hates technology and feels she can treat "geeks" anyway she wants to. Guess the mayor is only against bullying unless she, or her public works director, are doing it on behalf of PSE or a big telecom.

Michael Lilliquist -- Told me that I needed to back off of 5G because it was, "coming like a freight train." Which is funny because I was 60/40 on it at that point, and 75/25 on it now. (Againt/For). I was just asking good questions, but the kind of questions that cost people planning on running for mayor money, so I guess I needed to stop. 

All of the other council members, did everything Verizon wanted, and snunk it through during the summer. They never met with any representatives in their own community. Most of them, especially Pinky, claimed that we just had to install 5G and do whatever Verizon wanted because it was a safety issue when the truth is that 4G is more reliable, and AT&Ts FirstNet was designed well below the 5G spectrum because the waves are larger and more dependable. Again, they just couldn't be bothered with learning about the tech. I sent them "The 5G Myth" to read, but they consider "geeky" stuff unworthy of their time in general. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B01N0H32TN&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_tGDyCb8EFXWTS 

It is always a good idea to do testing of any new technology, even after it is rolled out. Think about it, we still test cars and emissions even though the fist one was made well over 100 years ago. It's because we know that gas fumes are damaging, so we try to regulate and control them.

We don't want 5G to become the modern lead in gas of our decade. Again, there are reasonable compromises. We could adopt the much more reasonable Canadian standards for 5G, for example.

Anyway, at the end of the day this is hardly the first report backing up the need to test 5G. The only reason it's not being independently tested at this point, is because the big telecoms, and their servants at the COB and in the County, don't want it to be.

Even if you ware a 5G supporter, you still need fiber to backup any modern network. If the fiber is public, you have choice, if it's not you have what we have now.

In the end, while your mayor and councils are dragging their feet, and giving you inferior, overpriced tech, over 650 other cities in the US are rolling out public fiber and the state has established a broadband office. Check out fiberhoods in Mason http://www.pud3.org/service/additional-services/pud-3-fiber-optic-network/fiberhoods

It's obvious this government is serving someone, and it isn't most of the public.