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

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From: Nick
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:14

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Sylvia Else wrote:

> 
> 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.

To be fair, there was one incident (Germany I believe) where they _think_ a
mobile phone interfered with the reception of the localiser, but it wasn't
repeatable AFAIK.

-- 
Nick

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From: Nick <spambucketREMOVE_THIS@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: what the? we r allowed mobile phones on planes u say?
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