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Time to stop flying?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm
Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. Gerry |
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On 7 Apr, 20:47, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. Gerry I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone intereference.... |
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, at 11:53:30 on Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Spider Pig remarked: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. Gerry I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone intereference.... Apparently my plane was recently in danger of crashing as it taxied across the apron at Schiphol. Well, they announced we shouldn't turn our phones on yet because of the interference they might cause... -- Roland Perry |
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On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:53:30 -0700 (PDT), Spider Pig
wrote: On 7 Apr, 20:47, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. Gerry I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone intereference.... That's a risk when the other passengers riot trying to throttle the morons using them on planes. |
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Spider Pig writes:
I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone intereference.... Interference was never as much of an issue as the effects on the network. That's why the FAA never prohibited cell phone use aboard aircraft, but the FCC did. |
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
... Spider Pig writes: I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone intereference.... Interference was never as much of an issue as the effects on the network. That's why the FAA never prohibited cell phone use aboard aircraft, but the FCC did. In the UK/Europe? -- JohnT |
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Martin wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:47:56 +0100, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. I can imagine it won't be long before a phone user has his phone inserted into him/her. It won't be cheap. Most transatlantic flights I've been on recently have air phones in economy, and I can't say I've noticed people using them much. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins |
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:12:16 GMT, (John Kulp)
wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:52:55 +0100, (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: Martin wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:47:56 +0100, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. I can imagine it won't be long before a phone user has his phone inserted into him/her. It won't be cheap. Most transatlantic flights I've been on recently have air phones in economy, and I can't say I've noticed people using them much. They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why Continental pulled them all out. I used them once when we had to let our hosts in L.A. know we were delayed. About $10 for a one minute call in 1993. |
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"Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote in message ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace under new European Commission rules. The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. Gerry I think it is time to buy stock in the Bose company (which makes those great noise canceling headphones). Jeff |
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