Time to stop flying?
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry

Time to stop flying?
 

On 7 Apr, 20:47, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry

I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone
intereference....

Time to stop flying?
 

In message
, at
11:53:30 on Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Spider Pig
remarked:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry

I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone
intereference....

Apparently my plane was recently in danger of crashing as it taxied
across the apron at Schiphol. Well, they announced we shouldn't turn our
phones on yet because of the interference they might cause...
--
Roland Perry

Time to stop flying?
 

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:53:30 -0700 (PDT), Spider Pig
wrote:

On 7 Apr, 20:47, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry

I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone
intereference....

That's a risk when the other passengers riot trying to throttle the
morons using them on planes.

Time to stop flying?
 

Spider Pig writes:

I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone
intereference....

Interference was never as much of an issue as the effects on the network.
That's why the FAA never prohibited cell phone use aboard aircraft, but the
FCC did.

Time to stop flying?
 

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
Spider Pig writes:

I guess that planes won't crash now due to mobile phone
intereference....

Interference was never as much of an issue as the effects on the network.
That's why the FAA never prohibited cell phone use aboard aircraft, but
the
FCC did.


In the UK/Europe?
--

JohnT

Time to stop flying?
 

Martin wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:47:56 +0100, "Gerald Oliver Swift"
wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

I can imagine it won't be long before a phone user has his phone inserted into
him/her.

It won't be cheap. Most transatlantic flights I've been on recently have
air phones in economy, and I can't say I've noticed people using them
much.

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

Time to stop flying?
 

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:52:55 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:47:56 +0100, "Gerald Oliver Swift"
wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

I can imagine it won't be long before a phone user has his phone inserted into
him/her.

It won't be cheap. Most transatlantic flights I've been on recently have
air phones in economy, and I can't say I've noticed people using them
much.

They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why
Continental pulled them all out.

Time to stop flying?
 

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:12:16 GMT, (John Kulp)
wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:52:55 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:47:56 +0100, "Gerald Oliver Swift"
wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

I can imagine it won't be long before a phone user has his phone inserted into
him/her.

It won't be cheap. Most transatlantic flights I've been on recently have
air phones in economy, and I can't say I've noticed people using them
much.

They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why
Continental pulled them all out.

I used them once when we had to let our hosts in L.A. know
we were delayed. About $10 for a one minute call in 1993.

Time to stop flying?
 

"Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry



I think it is time to buy stock in the Bose company (which makes those great
noise canceling headphones).

Jeff