Re: what the? we r allowed mobile phones on planes u say?

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From: Sylvia Else
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:45

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Jeremy Quirke wrote:

> It's not like your plane is going to fall out of the sky. You don't 
> seriously believe people don't accidentally leave their phones on anyway in 
> aircraft EVERY SINGLE DAY, and I haven't had any Boeings in my backyard 
> recently.

No - it never was really about safety, it's because the mobile phone 
networks can't cope with rapidly moving phones in line-of-sight of 
hundreds of phone towers at the same time.

Sylvia.

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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:45:47 +1000
From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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