Is this free wi-fi or free internet?

I'm all for free internet.

Would be interested to see what happens in Buckshaw Village (where I now live). Brand new development and one telephone exchange for the whole place! This might help speeds there, as at the moment they are dire.

Who will pay for the 'free' service? And how?

Mandelson wants to withdraw internet acces for naughty boys and girls. Giving out free access is sending out the wrong message and will only encourage people to access things for free which Mandy could charge lots of money for.

Thats why there will be no free internet while this bunch of communists remain in power.

Lancashire is a great county. My family are from Lancashire. Lancastrians face a choice now, and it is a big one. It is passing most people by, but it will determine whether Lancashire is a successful county by the middle of this century or whether it is a sick one. The Council have a choice to install a fibre optic network to provide fast broadband, digital TV and radio to everyone, or to go wireless. The first will be harder to install and may cost more but will set the infrastructure for fast internet for decades to come. It is also safe. The latter is cheaper, but is likely to lead to seriously compromised health for the population, wildlife and future generations. I have spent my career understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in disease. There are now many scientific studies published that demonstrate that exposure to low powers of pulsed microwave electromagnetic fields (such as in wifi wireless internet) alters the way brains develop. Rats exposed during pregnancy have babies with damaged parts of the brain involved in learning and memory. The brains have abnormal dead cells and fewer of them. Other studies show that learning abilities and memory are compromised following exposure to wireless technologies. Behavioural problems and short attention spans in children have also been found to be associated to exposures to wireless devices. Then there is male fertility. The evidence for decreased fertility in men who use mobile phones or from exposure to mobile phone masts is now very strong. Cancer clusters are reported near to phone masts. The potential damage to nerve cells in the brain and increased risk of cancer is a concern for the elderly and increases in the numbers of people with dementia or cancer might be expected. Lancashire has a choice. Don't do nothing, as now is the time to choose wisely. If you value the health of your young people, want bright healthy children, a fit elderly population, then choose a fibre optic infrastructure. Choo

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Choose to lead the world with fast communication technologies without the risk of increased infertility, poor cognitive abilities and disease. I suspect that the communities that are leading the world in the 22nd century will not be the wireless ones. They will be the ones who listened to the science and developed safe technologies that allowed future generations to flourish. Have a safe and happy 2010.

In September 2008, MEPs voted 522to 16 to urge ministers across Europe to bring in stricter radiation limits and said: “The limits on exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) which have been set for the general public are obsolete. The European Parliament "is greatly concerned at the Bio-Initiative international report which points in its conclusions to the health risks posed by emissions from devices such as mobile telephones, UMTS, WIFI, WiMax and Bluetooth, and also DECT telephones.

Can the MPs answer the following 10 questions?

1) Has the Government taken people who suffer with electrosensitivity into consideration, within the current limits?

2) Has any account been given to the unique susceptibility of growing
children to ELF and RF/MW?

3) What do you do if you have a phone mast next to your home or suffer as a result of exposure to mobile phones, Wi-Fi, WIMAX or DECT phones?

4) Should our children and the world’s workforce be forced to go to school and work surrounded in a sea of untested and unregulated radiation?

5) Have we given our Government and the Industry permission to include us in this experiment?

6) Hasn’t the Government got a duty of care to alert the public to the non-thermal biological effects?

7) What are the long term consequences?

8) Is financial gain more important than health?

9) Do we really want to leave a legacy of enormous proportions with regards to health and the economic consequences for our children?

10) Is it ethical?

Eileen O'Connor
www.radiationresearch.org
&
www.rewire.me

Newcastle-upon-Tyne is almost a no-go area for someone like me with electro-sensitivity. Middlesbrough is just as bad, particularly in the town centre. And then there’s Yarm, near Stockton-on-Tees, with its mast disguised as one of the flagpoles in the town centre. When I worked in the Forum in Norwich I was desperately ill, but I didn't know the cause then. Can you imagine how many people will be ill when an entire county is soaked in microwave radiation? - it doesn't bare thinking about. Doctors will repeatedly misdiagnose, there’ll be children who will suffer unheard. There’ll be a loss of well-being for many. Even my own doctor has been conditioned or trained to dismiss EHS as a psychological condition. No help for me there then! - And it just keeps getting worse. GREED, STUPIDITY and IGNORANCE!

This is what happened to me. Lancashire please do not go down this path!

Until last summer I was, like most people nowadays, very fond of all my modern communication gadgets from wifi to mobile, from Palm to laptops and all their advantages.

From 2006 onwards I went several times to see a doctor for heart palpitations, but they couldn’t find anything wrong with me.
Then in July 2008 I suddenly started experiencing dizziness on numerous occasions, till it got so bad one night, suffering even from speech problems, that I ended up in A&E thinking I had a stroke or heart attack; in the following weeks I underwent many tests. The results showed I was absolutely fine, but the symptoms stayed. The doctors told me I just had been stressed, but the thing is I wasn’t stressed at all prior to this.

To my own shock and confusion I realized that my dizziness always occurred, when I was in close vicinity to Wifi, mobiles, Blackberries and mobile masts.
Other symptoms added themselves to the list: excessive sweating during the night, memory and concentration problems, a pain in my head, and discomfort either side of my neck [ glands ] pins and needles in my hands, a feeling of being static (I gave people electric shocks in that early period, when I shook their hands), prickly skin and even skin rashes. The latter, when I was sitting in front of my computer or the tv. Even certain light sources (energy saving light bulbs and neon lights) caused the skin problem to occur.

After medical professionals weren’t able to help, I started my own research and found many websites and blogs by people, with exactly the same problems as mine. They are sufferers of electro-sensitivity (ES), a condition fully recognized in Canada and Sweden as a medical impairment (with 300.000 sufferers in Sweden alone) but unfortunately ridiculed in the UK. I had never heard of it (this to show I am not a hypochondriac), but once I realized that this was the source of my problems, I started clearin