Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon?

s31523 writes "A while back it was reported that cell phone use was given the OK on Emirate airlines. The BBC is now reporting European agencies back the use of cell phones in air. Plans have been developed to introduce technology that allow cell phone use on planes without any risk of interference. A spokesman for the UK regulator Ofcom said there were still many stages to pass through before final approval was given to the roll out of the plans, but the regulator said that the technology could be implemented next year."

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Re:Uh...you can do that now

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I've seen flight attendants get very upset with passengers who swear that their phones are in airplane mode, and who offer to show the current setting. Some of them do not allow for anything that looks like a phone to even appear operational.

They also miss the wireless notebooks that are operational and probing for their home networks.

Victims of group think. They're upset since they know they're supposed to be upset.

Not much different than groupthink rules in IRC, for example, where the op suddenly gets super upset at you if you mention a channel, even if it's legitimate: you just did a "channel invite"!