FCC worries cell phones in the air may interfere with cell phones on the ground
Um? Look, I’m all for banning cell phone on airplanes, but is there any real scientific evidence that cell phones in the air will interfere with cell phones on the ground? Because it sounds like complete and utter BS. Do cell phones on the ground have some latent inferiority complex so that they will refuse to work in the presence of phones calling from on high?
On the other hand, if the FCC feels like it needs some voodoo technical reason to continue to ban airline passengers from using cell phones, more power to them. As one individual who took advantage of the opportunity to comment publicly put it:
These days it’s impossible to get on a bus without at least one person hollering into their cell phone, invading the private space of everyone around them. That’s bad enough when one can get off in 10 minutes. To have to suffer through HOURS of such torture, with nowhere to go and miserably cramped conditions–someone is going to explode.
Your post demonstrates that you don’t understand how complicated the tower hand off process is. A system designed to hand off calls for people who are on the ground (and thus can only reach a couple of towers because of ground clutter blocking signals) and who are moving at less than 90mph (so they aren’t triggering many handoffs anyway) is probably not very good at handling calls moving at 600 mph from phones that can reach upwards of a dozen towers with little to no interference.