Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My understanding--I'm sure I've read this in more than one place--is that at an airliner's altitude, cells over a large fraction of the country would pick up transmissions from the cell phone. This would really screw up the system. I also read that the prohibition is an FCC, not an FAA, regulation. Makes me wonder. Wouldn't a cell phone being turned on but otherwise not being used, cause a problem? Herb - -- Herbert Kanner kanner@acm.org 650-326-8204 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html