Waiting for WiFi

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | January 31, 2010

Posted by Cliff Tuttle © 2010

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at the blood bank donation center.  I had my iPhone and plenty of time, but the location had no wifi and I could not pull in a broadband signal.

Any place that requires people to wait for any period of time, including doctor’s offices and hospital waiting rooms, should be equipped with wifi.  Hospitals have attempted to ban cell phones from their entire building on the claim that their signals interfere with life-saving equipment.  That claim, however, appears to be dubious at best, since the doctors use their cell phones all over the hospital.  Better to provide a good free signal in designated waiting rooms and let the media users gravitate there.

The blood bank, which relies entirely upon volunteer donors, is always trying to boost participations with raffles and other promotions. There are plenty of us who would gladly pay in blood for a couple of quiet hours every now and again when we could recline in peace and read blogs and tweets.

CLT

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