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

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From: Greg Alexander
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:54

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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.

That's what I'd heard - actually a small plane in the UK had a guy
making a mobile call, and the sheer number of base stations he was
connecting to simultaneously (some on the same frequency) and swapping
between base stations constantly caused a software crash. That was a
long time ago though, pilots on small planes use mobiles (when not
flying hopefully?) and people leave their mobiles on all the time
accidentally during flights.

Even so... what's in it for the airlines to allow you to use your
phone? Many airlines had just invested in their own on-board phones
when mobiles were taking off, nobody wants people yammering on the
phone for a whole flight anyway, and there's the unsubstantiated guess
that it's possible a transmitter could cause a problem. Why would they
bother?

So far, nobody has been sued for being too safe. So far.

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Subject: Re: what the? we r allowed mobile phones on planes u say?
Date: 3 Jun 2005 01:54:25 -0700
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