Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> My understanding--I'm sure I've read this in more than one place--is > that at an airliner's altitude, cells over a large fraction of the > country would pick up transmissions from the cell phone. This would > really screw up the system. I also read that the prohibition is an > FCC, not an FAA, regulation. I don't believe that's right. Cell phones typically only have a 1 mile range. I use one on my boat quite frequently, but more than a mile or so off shore...it doesn't work. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html