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Jon Elson[_3_]

wrote:

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
My boss has a cell phone that kills the battery in as little as 30 minutes
when he is in our lab. It has a LOT of electronic gear, and is mostly
underground. The phone tries to keep in contact with the cell tower
and needs to crank up the transmitter to full to be heard.

They put microcells around the campus and I think his phone no longer
has this problem.

Jon