Dereel

Locals: "Your radio tower gives us rashes!"
Company: "You mean the one that's been off all this time?"

Read about how a telecommunications company proved that the ailments that self diagnosed sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity disorder were not caused by a recently installed mobile tower.

The nano fibre optic cabling is currently being rolled out by the Government. It is designed for extremely fast broadband services which are faster than wireless connections and replaces the old phone line connection. The other option is the satellite broadband connection.

There is no such thing as "nano fibre optic cabling" (again DATA have no idea what the words they are using mean).

The NBN rollout will be replacing peoples copper wires used for PSTN services with fibre optic cables (note, they aren't nano) however there is only a very slim chance that this will happen in Dereel - only 90% of Australia will get fibre to their homes. Considering how far we are from our local exchange (in Corindhap) it's unlikely NBNco will replace our copper. So what will we get instead? Well we will be getting next generation wireless connections. That's 4G (aka LTE). So when the NBN does eventually get here DATA will lose again and we'll get another tower (and I'm sure they'll attempt to block Dereel getting connected to the NBN as well).

In any case the NBN has nothing at all to do with mobile telephony, we don't only want a mobile tower for internet services, we want it for mobile phone services. DATA is just trying to distract you, and yet again prove they have no idea what they are talking about.

Here is what DATA open with:

This is not about radio waves which have been around for decades and are used for radio communications.

The simple fact is that it is about radio waves, microwaves are merely a subset of radio waves between the frequencies of 300MHz and 300GHz whereas the term radio waves describes all electromagnetic frequencies below infrared (thus it does include microwaves). This very basic misunderstanding of the facts is then continued throughout the DATA flyer.

One thing that DATA did mention is the mobile tower that was recently erected in Haddon. The members of DATA who are attempting to block the installation of the tower here in Dereel also attempted to block the tower in Haddon - they were completely unsuccessful and common sense won. I guarantee they will be just as unsuccessful at blocking the installation of a tower here in Dereel and that common sense again will beat DATA's lack of reason and lack of data. They may be loud but they have no evidence to back up their claims and instead just attack what they don't understand, they mislead, they quote out of context and they down right lie.

You have to worry about a group who are so insecure about what they believe that they don't allow people to make comments on their website and they don't link to the opposition. I have no worries about linking to DATA's website and welcome everyone to read it, more importantly ask your kids to read it because even a child with high school physics will be able to point out the glaring errors.

It's funny that their name spells DATA and that's the one thing all their arguments lack. I will post a full rebuttal to their counterclaims shortly.

Edit: Greg has written an excellent review of all the errors in the Dereel Anti Tower Alliance flyer and I urge everyone to read it.

One of the more disgusting lies that DATA published is the following:

The World Health Organization (WHO) is funded by the Telecommunications Industry and Governments, so is not an independent organization, and has a vested interest in protecting their industry

If you would like to know the truth you can simply read the WHO's budget, it is published and public and you'll see they are not funded by the telecommunications industry and governments, they are funded by a lot more than that. Because DATA can't actually refute the findings of the WHO they try and disparage them by mud flinging and implying that they are not impartial. Instead what we see here is DATA flat out lying to you. Clearly DATA can't be trusted, I strongly suggest you don't take anything they say at face value and that you do your own research.