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The article does state: The group however will not "consider the airborne use of cell phones for voice communications during flight."
by jswanson 14y ago
The 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.