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Time to stop flying?
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:57 GMT, "Jeff Hacker"
wrote: "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). There are cheaper and just as good ones than Bose. |
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Time to stop flying?
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:57 GMT, Jeff Hacker wrote:
"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). they're ****. Just a set of $10 headphones with an extra twenty cents worth of foam on each side. The impressive part about bose company is that they sell them for hundreds of dollars. There's one born every minute. |
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Time to stop flying?
JohnT writes:
In the UK/Europe? The FAA and FCC have jurisdiction only in the U.S. |
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Time to stop flying?
John Kulp writes:
They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why Continental pulled them all out. The situation may change dramatically if the system allows incoming calls to personal cell phones. |
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Time to stop flying?
AZ Nomad writes:
they're ****. Just a set of $10 headphones with an extra twenty cents worth of foam on each side. The impressive part about bose company is that they sell them for hundreds of dollars. There's one born every minute. You're saying that they sell noise-cancelling headphones that don't actually contain any form of active noise cancellation? |
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Time to stop flying?
In message , at 19:47:56 on Mon, 7
Apr 2008, Gerald Oliver Swift remarked: The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. What will make me happy is not so much the ability to phone home and say "I'm going to be an hour late because we've just sat at the end of the runway waiting for a takeoff slot" but the ability to use my camera-phone to take pictures out of the window. -- Roland Perry |
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Time to stop flying?
In message , at 04:51:20 on
Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Mxsmanic remarked: they're ****. Just a set of $10 headphones with an extra twenty cents worth of foam on each side. The impressive part about bose company is that they sell them for hundreds of dollars. There's one born every minute. You're saying that they sell noise-cancelling headphones that don't actually contain any form of active noise cancellation? Active noise cancellation is rubbish too. I bought a set, and while they did reduce the background "throbbing" noise from the engines slightly, they don't have any effect on "random" noises like people talking or announcements (the latter a particular problem on some trains, rather than planes). -- Roland Perry |
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Time to stop flying?
Mxsmanic wrote:
John Kulp writes: They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why Continental pulled them all out. The situation may change dramatically if the system allows incoming calls to personal cell phones. This will still be very expensive. -- (*) 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 |
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Time to stop flying?
Roland Perry:
In message , at 19:47:56 on Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Gerald Oliver Swift remarked: The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. What will make me happy is [...] the ability to use my camera-phone to take pictures out of the window. Wouldn't any ol' camera do? |
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Time to stop flying?
In message , at 08:53:24
on Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m remarked: What will make me happy is [...] the ability to use my camera-phone to take pictures out of the window. Wouldn't any ol' camera do? Travelling by plane is bad enough without carrying an excessive number of "gadgets", when you have one already. The airlines seem to have addressed [1] this for Blackberrys, but the inability to use a phone as a camera or MP3 player is inconvenient. [1] Variously allowing them, or banning them "even in fight mode". Heigh ho. -- Roland Perry |
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