This is happening right around the outskirts of Ballarat.

NBN was sold to Australians as the new super-fast fibre-optic cables laid in the ground alongside existing phone lines, which is safe.

NBN doesn't want to give us this superior service, but instead they want to put up a tower that pulses microwave radiation out at the public for wireless connections which costs $200,000, is slower, not safe, won't tell us the monthly service cost, and will be used for smart meter radiation.

NBN Co's radiation expert, Michael Bangay from Radhaz Consulting, cannot show us any research that proves this radiation is safe.

Wireless broadband is being taken out overseas due to health problems, yet the telecommunications industry here is still putting them in.

We have made the government aware of the hundreds of independent scientific research studies showing adverse health effects, together with a lot of people who suffer because of the radiation penetrating their bodies, but authorities still refuse to acknowledge it, even after the World Health Organisation's warning in May, 2011, that radio-frequency radiation is now classified as a 2B carcinogen.

NBN Co's CEO Mike Quigley said: "We really do not have another option other than providing a satellite service", in response if councils reject its microwave radiation tower proposals.

We would be happy with "satellite connections" which many residents already have and which works well.

WENDY McCLELLAND

Dereel