FCC considering in-flight cellphone use above 10K feet, report says

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  • Reply 21 of 26
    arlorarlor Posts: 533member
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    Originally Posted by DarkVader View Post

     

    About time.

     

    Oh, and those of you complaining about it:  Boo Hoo.  You'll have to hear someone talking.  Poor baby.


     

    They'll hear me talking, too, because if their conversation is loud enough for me to involuntarily be a part of it, I plan to participate. 

     

    I hope this won't annoy you. Poor baby.

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  • Reply 22 of 26
    <div class="quote-container" data-huddler-embed="/t/160842/fcc-considering-in-flight-cellphone-use-above-10k-feet-report-says#post_2438585" data-huddler-embed-placeholder="false"><span>Quote:</span><div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>SpamSandwich</strong> <a href="/t/160842/fcc-considering-in-flight-cellphone-use-above-10k-feet-report-says#post_2438585"><img src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" class="inlineimg" alt="View Post"/></a><br/><br/><p>Just give people a "phone zone" in the plane where they can talk themselves silly without bothering others.</p>
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    Please! If they don't do that, can they also authorize signal scramblers for use? I don't want to spend hours forced to listen to somebody elses conversations. And people generally talk louder when they get on an elevator. Probably will do that when they plane is flying, too.

    Only once was I on a flight where some yutz talked on the AirFone through the whole thing. Very, very annoying.
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  • Reply 23 of 26
    Originally Posted by Arlor View Post

    if their conversation is loud enough for me to involuntarily be a part of it, I plan to participate.


     

    I do that sometimes, with friends. I’ll walk in on them on the phone and be the local other half of the conversation.

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  • Reply 24 of 26
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    While you are correct that the microwave oven analogy is poor and that this is not a hazard, I'm not sure why you brought up ionizing radiation; firstly that was never mentioned and secondly it would not particularly affect devices such as pacemakers anyway. More accurately, an aircraft has the wrong dimensions and is far too leaky to be a useful reasonant cavity or Faraday cage for cell phone emissions.

     

    Yeah ... my bad.  I guess I inferred (even though he didn't bring it up) that he was also one of these idiots that thinks he's gonna get cancer or be sterilized from cell-phone radiaton.

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  • Reply 25 of 26

    So does this mean all the times I was harassed about using a Gameboy or Sony Walkman was unnecessary B.S.?

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  • Reply 26 of 26
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    So does this mean all the times I was harassed about using a Gameboy or Sony Walkman was unnecessary B.S.?


    unnecessary?... not at all. It was the law... the flight attendants faced fines or firing if they were caught NOT enforcing the rules (they are federal rules, not airline rules.)

     

    B.S. ?  ... most definitely.

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