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FCC Walks Back Plan To Allow In Flight Cell Service
America’s Federal Communication Commission has ended proceedings that looked at allowing passengers to make in-flight cell phone calls on domestic United States flights (simpleflying.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If someone wants to text while airborne (with the clicking sound turned off) who cares. However, if that same person wants to talk for hours, annoying everybody around.......no bloody way!
And alerts (bells, etc.) also turned off, from boarding till deplaning....
15 years ago I would have strongly opposed allowing cell phone usage on flights, for the reasons others here have mentioned, but nowadays hasn't texting pretty much supplanted voice calls for most people? On the other hand, there will always be those inconsiderate few who will spend an entire flight talking into their phone at the top of their lungs.
I don't know about that. The number of people on flights who talk prior to the door being shut and immediately upon landing is still higher than you'd expect, if texting has supplanted voice calls.
And it really only takes one or two people to make it miserable for an entire flight.
And it really only takes one or two people to make it miserable for an entire flight.
Bad idea to allow voice calls all the way around. The number of people getting hauled off flights and cited for not wearing masks at the present time will be nothing compared to the disruptions and fights occurring when people are yapping on their phones for hours! If people are that important (and inconsiderate to others) they can charter an airplane and yap away.
Noo cell phones. It would lead to boxing matches high in the flightlevels. Text services only