On March 14, Industry Minister Christian Paradis unveiled the rules for the federal government's wireless spectrum auction, which will allow Canada's telecommunications companies to bid on some prime new electromagnetic real estate.

On the auction block in early 2013 will be the 700-MHz band, which was freed up by the switch to digital television. Lower frequencies are generally more valuable than higher ones, since they travel farther and easily penetrate buildings. This makes 700 MHz a blue-chip frequency that should allow cellphones to work in elevators and underground garages, while supporting the newest wireless high-speed technology, LTE. The auction could generate $3.5 billion in revenue--and that may be conservative, given that the 2008 auction brought in $4.3 billion, far exceeding expectations.

Here's a look at previous auctions, how much they raised and who the biggest spenders were . . .

As stated repeatedly on our website, Citizens for Safe Technology Society (CST) is not a society of "Citizens for No Technology."

We know very well that safe technology is essential in our society, and so we are advocating for a safe, secure delivery system to replace the wireless technologies that have been, and are being, deployed without due diligence or forethought.

As a parent, we are sure that Mr. Lalonde has only the best interests of his family at heart. Unfortunately, he is currently basing his opinions on a limited number of false and popular assumptions, and a rejection of the Precautionary Principle.

If you have helpful insights for him, he has invited your input.

"My name is Clint Lalonde and I live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I started this site because I have 2 children in the public school system. I am a strong supporter of the public school system and believe we should all work towards making it the strongest public education system in the world.

"Increasingly, I see that threatened as anti-wifi activists advocate removing access to the internet from our schools - the one place in our society where access to high quality educational learning material is needed the most.

"The purpose of this website is to counter the questionable claims made by anti-wifi activists and illustrate what educators and students lose without access to wifi in schools. Comment Policy

"The issue of wifi in schools seems to be one that triggers people's passions, especially amongst the anti-wifi minority. We do have comments enabled on this site in an effort to promote civil discussion. However, one of the strategies of the anti-wifi movement is to bombard anyone questioning their "facts" with an overwhelming number of comments, many of which don't attempt to further the discussion but instead rely on ad hominem attacks and statements like "this website is a sham" or "this site is the height of absurdity" to sway public opinion. This kind of discussion is not helpful an will not be published. Commentors wishing to take this approach are free to find their own websites on which to do so."  Clint Lalonde

"Honey bee populations around the world are in decline due to causes ranging from 'super mites' to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and even cell phones - and if the insects disappear completely the planet's ecosystems would be in peril. The issue has become so dire that now a team of Harvard and Northeastern University scientists are working on a swarm of miniature Robobee robots that could pollinate flowers and do the job of real bees if required. . . .

Posted comment for this article: "This is so illogical, impractical, immoral... so the bees go missing because of the phones and spraying, then the humans go missing, will a robohuman be the scientific report?"

London (CNN) --

"The light bulb figuratively suspended above a human head has long been symbolic of the eureka moment that every inventor craves.

"But for German physicist Herald Haas, it's the bulb itself that provides the inspiration for his bright idea.

"Haas and his team at the UK's University of Edinburgh, are the brains behind a new patented technology that uses beams of flickering light to transmit digital information wirelessly, a process known as Visible Light Communication (VLC).

"My big idea is to turn light bulbs into broadband communication devices ... so that they not only provide illumination, but an essential utility," he says.

"Haas claims that data can be sent by adding a microchip to any humble LED bulb, making it blink on and off at a phenomenal speed, millions of times per second.

"My big idea is to turn light bulbs into broadband communication devices ... so that they not only provide illumination, but an essential utility Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh It's this capability that allows LEDs to transmit data in a rapid stream of binary code that, although invisible to the naked eye, can then be detected by a light-sensitive receiver.

"It's a bit like sending a Morse code signal with a torch, but at a much faster rate and using the alphabet that computers understand," explains Haas.

"The implication is that wherever you have a light bulb -- and there are an estimated 14 billion of them worldwide -- you have the potential for a wireless Internet connection. In practice, it means that any street lamp could double up as a web hotspot . . .

"A new wireless standard promising blazing speeds over short distances was recently adopted by the IEEE, known as 802.11ad. The ratified standard will deliver 7Gbit/s speeds over 60GHz frequencies and will start appearing in consumer electronics as soon as next year. In case you're wondering, WiGig is the consumer-friendly marketing name which will encompass 802.11ad and future revisions.

"Dell already announced a WiGig compliant Latitude 6430u Ultrabook . Additionally, chip makers like Marvell, Qualcomm and Atheros are all working on chip implementations, some of which pack 802.11ac and 802.11ad capabilities into a single module. These chips will grant devices simultaneous access to 2.4-5GHz and 60GHz bands and will offer dual and even tri-band compatibility. . . .

"The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.

"The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the $178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce lobbying effort to persuade policymakers to reconsider the idea, analysts say. That has been countered by an equally intense campaign from Google, Microsoft and other tech giants who say a free-for-all WiFi service would spark an explosion of innovations and devices that would benefit most Americans, especially the poor.

"The airwaves that FCC officials want to hand over to the public would be much more powerful than existing WiFi networks that have become common in households. They could penetrate thick concrete walls and travel over hills and around trees. If all goes as planned, free access to the Web would be available in just about every metropolitan area and in many rural areas.

"The new WiFi networks would also have much farther reach, allowing for a driverless car to communicate with another vehicle a mile away or a patient's heart monitor to connect to a hospital on the other side of town . . .

Dear colleagues,

"Consider viewing this Boeing presentation of the wireless clouding, signal density environment inside airplane environments associated with WiFi, et alia.

"With their measuring equipment + imaging technology, Boeing has successfully imaged what happens in many urban & indoor "background wireless emissions" settings that we have been measuring in Central Canada, especially where SMART meters + transmission lines + wireless communications + airport & military + ... + ... + ... compete for space, usually at above 2 meters height and above ground levels on level terrain, which I have already termed as "cold plasma clouds" of microwave emissions.

"This is a very dynamic environment, as the Boeing documentation shows and models. I have observed that this multi-frequency, multi-sourced emission environment is capable of also engendering elaborate and disturbing electrostatic buildups that, if suddenly discharged, say by a moving object or individual, allow collapses of standing waves of considerable power density, liable to cause "fire ball" type of transformation, which can then lead to failures in equipment (perhaps such as the Boeing aircraft have been experiencing lately - especially in such humid environments as Boston airport & Japanese environments) of electronic and of surface materials. In some surveys that I have conducted, and even in our own headquarters, such equipment as fire alarms, entertainment appliances, have burst into flames or have simply failed.

Andrew Michrowski

This paper has become one of the highest ranked resources on the web addressing Smart Meter interference problems. This article has been updated to incorporate new research.

• Background 
• Technical Radio Spectrum Overview 
• Smart Meter RF Specifications 
• Smart Meters Cause Illegal Interference 
• Hydro Justifies Smart Meter Interference 
• Hydro Offers Unacceptable Solution 
• Industry Canada Warns of Risk 
• Railway Safety Compromised 
• Amateur Radio Wiped Out 
• Official Bandplan for 902-928 MHz 
• Planned Local Uses of 902-928 MHz by Amateur Radio 
• Ontario Energy Board Recommendations Ignored 
• Chatham-Kent Hydro Supported the Loss of 220-222 MHz Band to Amateurs 
• Updates in 2010 
• Conclusion

"In its unsigned commentary on September 3, 2011, "Worrying about Wireless", The Economist makes a number of technical errors and misleading statements about microwave radiation that we write to correct. The governments of more than a dozen nations have issued precautionary advice and policies about wireless devices, including restricting cellphone use by children in France, India and Israel (See Worldwide Advisories at www.saferphonezone.com). The Economist would do well to consult with experts in these and other tech-savvy nations to learn the science behind these countries' decisions so that it can provide accurate reporting on wireless safety and health matters . . .

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) was formerly known a s Trans-European Trunked Rado.  It is a professional mobile radio and two-way transceiver specification.  TETRA was specifically design for use by government agencies, emergency services, police forces, fire departments, ambulance . . . for public safety networks, rail transportation staff for train radios, transport services and military. 

B.C. Hydro will be establishing and using the first TETRA network in North America - considered by some to be the most dangerous wireless technology so far. It uses lower pulsed frequency levels which are much closer to the frequencies of our bodies, especially our hearts and brains. Not only will the users be exposed as they use the radios, but people living within range of the TETRA transmitter will be exposed. These transmitters will be emitting constantly, and will add significant amounts of RF to our environment.

http://criticalcommsworldblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/north-americas-first-fleet-of-tetra-radios/

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON TETRA

WHAT IS ALL THIS REALLY ABOUT?
SAFETY LEVELS
WHAT IS BELIEVED TO HAPPEN AS THESE WAVES ENTER OUR BODIES?
INSURANCE
SURVEYS
GROUND CURRENTS
THE CONCLUSIVE PROOF ARGUMENT
UNDERSTANDING RADIATION (MICROWAVE AS IN TETRA)
MY SCIENTIFIC CONCERNS ABOUT THE NRPB
THE ABSOLUTE PARADOX
ADDING UP ALL OF THE WAVES THAT YOU ARE EXPOSED TO
THE NRPB DOCUMENT ON TETRA (Appendix 20)
CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATIONS
QUESTIONS
LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
REFERENCES

Dangers of the Tetra Police radio system 

"Why are they popular among British policemen? 

"The radios work. So in comparison to what they had before, they are a vast improvement. 

"They operate at the same frequency as the human brain - this has so many implications that they are impossible to describe in an e-mail. 

"However, they are also deadly. In one estate / subdivision here there have been an estimate 36 deaths from all kinds of cancers both inside and around the police station. In one house directly behind the station, a young man developed a brain tumour - inoperable, but in remission. Just recently I was told that a young fellow in the house next door has been diagnosed with cancer of the heart. Even a cleaner in the police station got cancer. 

"The government refuses to investigate. What information they have gathered is beyond the reach of the public.

"Regarding the mast facing my home (up the road a bit - I live at a t-junction), an expert told me, "That mast doesn't belong within a mile and a half of human habitation". Yet they put it facing not one, but three primary schools. We managed to keep additional operators off the mast but I left sitting here with a tingling on my face and legs. 

"The system was purchased by a government minister, now deceased, in an arrangement with a company called Shared Access (funded by GoldmanSachs-JPMorgan) based in North Carolina based on equipment supplied by Motorola, a major U.S. Defense contractor. 

"You'd best get yourself up to speed on this issue because in urban areas the masts are much closer together. Regarding the health of individual police officer, they have the radios on their shirt pockets, power packs on their belts at the back, radios in their cars as well as on the police stations. As far as I'm concerned, they're the walking wounded. When they first activated the mast facing my home, the police could not get into their cars because the signal over-rode the remote control door openers on their cars and had to be turned down. What was this signal doing to their bodies. This relates directly to the problem with Toyota cars and Dr. William Bailey who is scheduled to appear in British Columbia in a hear with FortisBC and the imposition of the Smart Meter. Bailey was able to avoid any responsibility for the problem. He is what is called a "Product defense consultant." I'm attaching a pdf of "Doubt is Their Product" which explains the role of the product defense consultant and specifically mentions Bailey.

"Recently I was trapped in my car with the emergency lights flashing, unable to open the windows or get out... when I went to the car dealership, they knew all about the problem and said, "Oh, well, you were parked near a mast..." 

John Weigel