To: Randall L. Stephenson, CEO- AT&T and John J. Legere, CEO-T-Mobile
AT&T/T-Mobile: Schools are for Students NOT Cell Antennas
The community and Alameda Unified School District want the cell companies to shut off and remove the cell antennas from our schools. California Education Code section 17534 limits such contracts to five years, but under the contracts, the cell companies have the sole discretion to stay or go for 25 to 30 years. We don't know what the harms to growing children may be, but we don't think it is worth the risk.
Why is this important?
My son will be in second grade at Maya Lin School, one of the three schools in the school district that have cell antennas. The middle school he will go on to attend, Wood, also has cell antennas. I don't know if there is harm from the emissions from cell antennas, but I know I don't think it is worth the risk. I also don't like that the cell companies drafted contracts that they knew were illegal, and now it seems to me that they are using their fat wallets and threat of legions of lawyers to scare the school district from taking action. The International Association of Fire Fighters has put together a great report in their opposition to antennas/towers on fire stations: http://www.iaff.org/hs/Facts/CellTowerFinal.asp