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

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:57

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote in message
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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.

Wrong. As always.

Have fun explaining how some do allow it.

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From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: what the? we r allowed mobile phones on planes u say?
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