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Boston Hospital Goes Wireless: Cell Phones to Be Linked to Switchboard.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Howe, Peter J.
Sep. 18--Doctors and staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center may soon be far easier to reach on the phone under a new deal the Boston hospital has signed with AT&T Wireless to link physicians' and nurses' cell phones to their hospital switchboard phone numbers.
The project is thought to represent New England's largest trial to date of new technology that turns standard cell phones into the equivalent of superlong-range cordless phones when they are used inside a company building or campus, involving up to 1,000 workers at first and hundreds more later.
Some analysts envision that within several years, millions of American workers will move to "wireless switchboard" systems and use a cell phone as their primary -- or sole -- phone at work,...
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