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Russell Whitworth wrote:
> 
> In article <340a369c.1768073@news.sv.net.au>, Matthew McDonald
> <firstnamehere@sv.net.au> writes
> >It's to stop interference with sensitive navigation equipment AND to make
> >people use the Airlines AirPhone at $$$$$ a minute.
> 
> I am aware of one flight where the captain specifically asked "will the
> passenger who has left his GSM phone turned on please turn it off".
> Pretty good anecdotal evidence that it *can* interfere with their
> communications, I would say.

A friend's GSM phone interferes with all sorts of things, TVs, radios,
hi-fi, my TACS phone, etc...he delights in making a call and bringing
his phone near mine when I'm making/receiving a call.

If you've ever tuned around on a scanner or normal FM radio when
there's a CD player switched on nearby you'll have noticed just how
much interference & crap they spew out. Same goes for PCs.

I don't know if this is relevant but I would guess that since a
133MHz processor has its clock frequency in the middle of airband
that this might cause some problems... :-)

-- 
Paul