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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Are you attempting to claim that personal cell phones are involuntarily inoperable on commercial airliners?
Cowperson
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not quite.
i've heard of it working, i think there was a mythbusters aboot it and i've read accounts from RF engineers that are 'yay' and 'nay'.
this was over heavily populated areas, ie. the NE united states, so there are a lot of towers.
but i have a hard time believing there was much conversation over cell phones with a plane going 400 mph, blasting through cells like keith richards through his painkillers. maybe 5 second calls, tops. i mean, they drop out on cars on the highway, like all the time.
i don't dispute the possibility, but i do dispute the idea of multiple calls lasting long enough to convey an actual conversation.
as for airphones, i'm sure 90+ percent of CP'ers have been on a plane and at least SEEN the things used. no kidding they work.