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MUHC superhospital doesn't have cellphone service


 
CBC News first reported in March, construction materials used to build the hospital are blocking cellphone signals inside the buildings, meaning reception is spotty or non-existent in many places.
To boost the cellphone signal inside the superhospital, an antenna was installed across the street and on the employee parking garage which provided signal penetration to about 40 or 50 per cent of the building. The next step is installing hundreds of small antennas inside the hospital, known as a distributed antenna system which  will probably take several more months.
While the system is being installed, physicians and medical personnel have been using pagers and Wi-Fi phones. But as one surgeon who declined to be identified told CBC News that it’s slowed everything down, returning things to the way they were 10 years ago.
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