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The arguments against allowing voice calls are not based on the technology but the idea of not wanting to listen to other people's conversations. > Pai told US
by funkymike 10y ago
The arguments against allowing voice calls are not based on the technology but the idea of not wanting to listen to other people's conversations.
> Pai told USA TODAY in a statement. “Taking it off the table permanently will be a victory for Americans across the country who, like me, value a moment of quiet at 30,000 feet.”
> But Pai's predecessor as FCC chairman, Thomas Wheeler, argued that the ban had become obsolete because many airliners basically carry their own cellphone towers for in-flight entertainment.
- dragonwriter 10y agoI think airlines should have policies disallowing it, but I don't see how the in-cabin ambience of an airplane is even remotely what the FCC exists to regulate. I would hate to be in an airplane with people making voice calls, but I don't think it's even remotely the FCC's job (and I'm somewhat dubious it's even properly the government's job) to do it, and, while I'm neither, I'm closer to a socialist than a laissez-faire supporter of unregulated capitalism.