Last time I checked, neither the FAA nor the Airlines had any authority to regulate problems with cell phone traffic except as they related to airliner safety. But that is JUST the sort of bogus power grab that they use to justify their actions.
-----Original Message----- From: Cliff Skolnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Raj Saxena'; 'dano' Subject: Re: [BAWUG] RE: Anyone heading to Germany next month? A real problem is not with the airplane, but also with the fact that each cell phone on a plane will hit many cell sites and make a mess. You can experience the same thing by taking a cell phone up on one of the ridges overlooking silicon valley. Lots of signal, but can't make calls until you back away a few feet from the overlook (and masking some of the sites). Being overhead is outside the design of the cell system. Back in the late 80's with an analog cell phone in a private plane just a few thousand feet up my friend made a call. Right after he hung up the phone rang and it was the cell phone company. They asked him to not use his phone in a plane. They said something about him lighting up their system like a christmas tree when he asked them how they knew. Cheers, Cliff -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
