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Is anyone else worried about people this is going to lead to scores of people trying to board while talking away on their phones while forgetting about the 200
by joelrunyon 14y ago
Is anyone else worried about people this is going to lead to scores of people trying to board while talking away on their phones while forgetting about the 200 people behind them?
Or, for that matter get seated next to a guy who's arguing with his spouse/stockbroker/best friend the entire 4 hour flight?
I'm all for in-flight communication, but I'm a little worried of the chaos it might bring as well.
- jswanson 14y agoThe article does state: The group however will not "consider the airborne use of cell phones for voice communications during flight."
- epoxyhockey 14y agoI seem to recall that a cell phone isn't likely to operate at 30,000 feet to begin with. There is an issue with a cell phone, at altitude, associating with many cell towers at once which consumes too many resources and is automatically shut out from the network. I tried to find the reference (probably from ~10 years ago on Slashdot), but couldn't locate it thus far. EDIT: Here's one source http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213012&cid=17329448 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=213012&cid=1732... saying that thousands of people switching cell towers frequently would strain resources. It also mentions that planes may be installing cell equipment into the plane to eliminate this issue.