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From the Blogosphere Is This the Death-Knell for Peace and Quiet in the Skies?
For crackberries this is just the beginning of the beginning...for the rest of us it's the beginning of the end
By: Jeremy Geelan
Oct. 23, 2007 12:00 PM
The BBC carried a report yesterday that raises the alarming possibility of extending cellphone use on board airplanes from just either end of a journey to throughout the duration of the flight. Silence is sunshine...company is clouds; But I will admit to a horror of being surrounded by people talking on their cellphones while the rest of us are trying to enjoy the latest movie or catch up on work, on life...or on sleep. Here's how it would work, according to Ofcom, the official body that's basically the telecommunications regulator in the UK: The key to the whole thing, the technical trick that circumvents the problem found in 2003 by the CAA that mobile phone signals skew navigation bearing displays by up to five degrees, is that cellphones in the plane are not allowed to connect to any base stations on the ground. Reader Feedback: Page 1 of 1
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