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JulianMorrison on Sept 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: FAA to lift mobile shut-down rule

Seems to me the answer is to put a cellphone "tower" in the plane so the phones all connect to that at low power and stay connected to one place. Meanwhile the plane itself can relay to ground via more sophisticated means designed for flight.

Filligree on Sept 24, 2013 [–]

Or even not relay, depending. The point is to keep them at minimum power, not necessarily to allow phone calls.

I figure that if cellphones actually mattered, the FAA would have long since required such devices in airplanes.

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