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COPYRIGHT 2005 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 28--It is getting harder these days to find a quiet place free of the chatter from someone talking on a mobile phone.
On trains or buses, even standing in line for a sandwich, conversations abound. But in places like hospitals and airplanes, where the fear that critical high-tech gear would be compromised by a wireless signal, silence ruled.
Not for much longer.
At Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, cell phone use is allowed everywhere except intensive-care units. There's even an in-building antenna system to improve reception.
And late last year, the Federal Communications Commission launched a policy review that may put an end to the agency's ban on use of cell phones in aircraft. Currently, federal aviation authorities prohibit in-flight cell phone use out of concern for potential disruption of cockpit...
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