Little Smart accessible in hospital
3/6/2004 15:24
Little Smart service users will be able to use the phone service in a
local hospital, because the medical facility believes the cordless phone
technology will not disturb the normal use of medical apparatus as mobile phones
do, today's Shanghai Morning Post reported.
More than 200 staff of Gongli
Hospital, Pudong, are using Little Smart phones for interior communications on
work, according to the hospital's spokesman.
The hospital forbids doctors to
use mobile phones or pagers.
Since radiation of the service is only a half
that given off by a TV distant controller, use of Little Smart won't disturb the
operation of medical facilities or harm the health of patients.
In Japan and
some overseas countries, Little Smart phones are the only mobile communication
terminals allowed for use in hospital.
Last year, the service was widely used
in Beijing hospitals during the campaign against the severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS).
With Gongli Hospital wired into its network yesterday,
Shanghai Telecom Corp, the city's only Little Smart service operator, started
its network expansion project in downtown Shanghai, anticipating a warm market
reaction from urban users to the new service.
Since it launched the service
from May 18 in downtown Shanghai, its urban users have grown to 50,000.
Its
suburban users have topped 460,000 following the rural launch last May
18.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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