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Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

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and testes from instantaneous peak power from smart meter exposures, yet<br />

relevant documents identify how much more vulnerable these organs are,<br />

and the need for such safety limits to protect the eyes and testes.<br />

No Baseline RF Assessment<br />

<strong>Smart</strong> meter and collector meter installation are taking place in an<br />

information vacuum. FCC compliance testing takes place in an environment<br />

free of other sources of RF, quite unlike typical urban and some rural<br />

environments. There is no assessment of baseline RF conditions already<br />

present (from AM, FM, television and wireless communication facilities<br />

(cell towers), emergency and dispatch wireless, ham radio and other<br />

involuntary RF sources. Countless properties already have elevated RF<br />

exposures from sources outside their own control.<br />

Consumers may also have already increased their exposures to<br />

radiofrequency radiation in the home through the voluntary use of wireless<br />

devices (cell and cordless phones), PDAs like BlackBerry and iPhones,<br />

wireless routers for wireless internet access, wireless home security systems,<br />

wireless baby surveillance (baby monitors), and other emerging wireless<br />

applications.<br />

Neither the FCC, the CPUC, the utility nor the consumer know what portion<br />

of the allowable public safety limit is already being used up or pre-empted<br />

by RF from other sources already present in the particular location a smart<br />

meter may be installed and operated.<br />

Consumers, for whatever personal reason, choice or necessity who have

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