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I had a procedure done in a hospital this morning and I had been in the
building for about 30 minutes before we started, when one of the nurses
advised me to remove the battery from my cell phone because as she put it,
"otherwise the building will kill it".

Perhaps it was coincidence but I then looked at my phone and the battery
state of charge was in the toilet. I know it sounds crazy, and I'm
embarrassed to even ask, was this just bull**** or is there anything to
this? Lenny




I regularly work a 19 hour gig under some railway arches in London. Even
though I have to make sure my phone is fully charged before I enter the
building at 2pm, it is usually pretty much on zero by the time I leave
around 9am.

I believe this is because most of the club has no cellphone signal, but
parts of it does.
So as i wander around, the phone spends most of the time using up its
battery trying to find a signal, polling the transmitter, logging on to the
system when it finds a signal, or whatever it actually does in reality when
it finds itself in such a dire constantly on/off reception situation.

Perhaps your Hospital is similar.


Gareth.