> No significant
> levels of interference were detected from cordless handsets
A colleague and I did a study in 1993 into time saving effects of giving the
on call medical SHO and HO cordless phones. One of the companies had just
produced the first 300m range digital handsets. The data showed about 1
hour saved per 24 hour period. Howevever, we didn't get to finish the study
because after 4 months the statement came out about interference of mobile
phones and the management of most hospital banned cordless ones as well.
The other problem at the time was that no manufaturers produced cordless
phones that could connect to more than one basestation at a time so the
advantage was limited to the medical block and the phone didn't work in the
canteen or A+E.
Another failed attempt at publication! Still, I see the QMH in Dunfermline
now has a system of cordless phones instead of bleeps for many of it's staff
so I guess the problems were overcome.
Robbie Coull
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