The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes

jcatcw writes "Mike Elgan argues that the the real reason that cell phones calls are not allowed is fear of crowd control problems if calls are allowed during flight. Also, the airlines like keeping passengers ignorant about ground conditions. The two public reasons, interference with other systems, could easily be tested, but neither the FAA nor the FCC manage to do such testing."

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Mutiple base station problem

[Forget4it]

I thought the real reason was that the phone companies are worried what happens when too many of their base-stations get contacted simultaneously by the same cell phone/s. They probably can cope but are unable to do the real insitu testing.