Hospital mobile bans 'must stay'
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Evidence that mobile phones can interfere with vital intensive care equipment has been strengthened.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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A doctor who handed out leaflets to shoppers criticising hospital management, is suspended.
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Using cell phones near hospital beds or  important equipment is dangerous and could switch off  ventilators or disrupt pacemakers, Dutch researchers said on  Thursday.
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Patients are regularly forced to wait in ambulances outside hospitals for more than 50 minutes, ambulance chiefs confirm.
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Although there may have been technical limitations at the time the cell phone ban was established, according to IDC&#39;s Shiv Bakhshi, it is unclear why the ban has remained in place, given that
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Patients who fail to follow medical advice will not be penalised under a reformed NHS, minister says.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. mobile users waiting for the next crop of phones could breathe a sigh of relief Wednesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay on an import ban against handsets that use some Qualcomm chips. The International Trade CommissionÂ (ITC) ordered the ban in JuneÂ after theÂ Qualcomm chips were found to infringe Broadcom patents. It only affected future models, not current imports. If imposed, it could affect handset makers including Motorola, Samsung Electronics, and others, whoÂ filed motions seeking the stay. The latest move lets those manufacturers bring in the new phone models while Qualcomm appeals the ITC's order and seeks a reversal of the patent-infringement ruling. The fight for the stay was considered an uphill battle. Smith Brittingham, a lawyer with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, said in June he could only remember one time when such a ruling had been stayed pending an appeal. âIt would be a significant victory for Qualcomm,â he said at the time. Last month theÂ Bush administration turned downÂ a request by Qualcomm to stop the ban. The stay affects the third-party companies that filed motions, which also include Kyocera Wireless, Sanyo Fisher, T-Mobile USA, LG Electronics MobileComm USA, and AT&T Mobility. The circuit court didn't grant a stay for Qualcomm's own imports, but Qualcomm does not itself import the chips found to infringe Broadcom's patents, according to a Qualcomm press release Wednesday. Broadcom went to the ITC seeking an import ban only against Qualcomm. The third parties and Qualcomm argued in the appeals court that the ITC didn't have the authority to exclude products imported by other companies. The court said the third parties had a substantial case and the harm they might suffer weighed in their favor, according to Qualcomm. Broadcom could not immediately be reached for comment. In July,Â Broadcom reached a deal with Verizon WirelessÂ that would let Verizon continue to import phones using the disputed technology. Under that deal, Verizon will pay Broadcom $6 for every handset, PDA (personal digital assistant) or data card that uses EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) mobile broadband technology. The payments have a ceiling of $40 million per calendar quarter and a lifetime maximum of $200 million. As part of the deal, Verizon also will drop its effort to overturn the ruling. The patent fight is one of a series of intellectual-property disputes between mobile pioneer Qualcomm and Broadcom, a communications chip maker that has moved aggressively into the mobile arena. (Nancy Gohring in Seattle contributed to this story.) Â
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Civil servant finally leaks data correctly - to us... The Register has received the email sent out to all staff at the Medical Research Council passing on instructions from the Cabinet Office that the ban on taking laptops out of the office could apply to mobile phones too.â¦
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A ban on patients and doctors using mobile phones in English hospitals is to be lifted, the government announces.
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Customers of mobile-phone carriers shouldn't have to pay early termination fees if they're called to overseas military service or have their contracts automatically extended every time they call customer support, critics said Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The head of the cellular industry association sent a letter to President Bush, asking him to strike the U.S. International Trade Commission's recentÂ ban on the import of Qualcomm phones in the U.S. The ban, issued by the commission on June 7, can be vetoed by the president within 60 days of the ruling. Historically, presidents have rarely overturned such a decision from the ITC. The ban will "freeze innovation" for wireless networks in the country and will adversely affect public safet, wrote Steve Largent, president and CEO of the CTIA cellular industry association, in a letter to the president dated Wednesday. In addition to diminishing public safety agencies' ability to conduct basic communications, the ban will also hinder the mobile industry's efforts to improve emergency 911 services, he wrote. That's because the ban only covers future phone models while allowing existing phones to continue to reach the market. As a result, new technologies that can allow better pinpointing of 911 callers won't be imported if the ban stands, Largent wrote. He paints a broad picture of woe across the industry that will result from the ban. "Substantial investments will be stranded and jobs will be lost if the ITC importation ban is allowed to stand," according to the letter. Largent warns that the ban will force the redesign of all handsets that use the chips, a process that could take 18 months to two years and could cost millions of dollars. That process will reduce the international competitiveness of the companies and pass on costs to consumers, he said. The ban is a result of aÂ patent feud between Qualcomm and Broadcom. The ITC ruling follows an earlier finding thatÂ Qualcomm infringed on a Broadcom patentÂ related to power management. The ITC took unusual steps in order to develop the parameters of the ban, holding hearings with the two companies and entertaining ideas from the industry. It is rare for the ITC to grandfather in products, allowing them to be imported even though they have been found to infringe intellectual property. The only similar cases historically have involved products that could directly harm lives if they became unavailable. If the president doesn't strike the ban, Qualcomm can appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, asking for a stay of the ban. However, the court rarely issues stays to such decisions. Qualcomm has said that it plans to urge the president to overturn the ban and if he doesn't, the company will appeal the decision in court.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread
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Â· Study finds no danger for adults over shorter period Â· Advice to ban mobiles for children under eight holds
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British Medical Association says patients should be spared 'unnecessary' attempts to revive them.
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Mobile phone tunes are considered by many to be a curse of modern life, but for users of some Siemens handsets they could be a positive hazard to health, the German engineering giant warned on Thursday.
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Anyone who has been inside a hospital probably has been cut off from relatives and colleagues because of a common rule: no cellphones. But some health care facilities are creating wireless networks to let patients, family members, physicians and staff members use their phones.