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EDITORIAL: CELL PHONES ON AIRPLANES? NO!

Dear Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Powell: You've asked for public comment about this proposal to permit the use of cell phones during commercial air flights. We vote no. A thousands times no.
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The airplane is owned by a company. It is the company's property. They can set whatever rules they like and if people don't like them they go to another company.

Thus whilst it is the right of the company to set what polices it likes, they will lose buisness if they do not listen to their customers.

Which raises the question of what on earth the FCC have to do with it.


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Making calls on a plane that distorts important communications between the pilot and ground control in my mind is a safety risk, not to mention it is very disturbing, especially for people who talk on a phone as though they are addressing a group of people that need to hear what they are saying.

The FCC believes that it is their position to 'govern' the air waves so it does not become a mass confusion of communications that may interrupt service. Wether they have this 'right' or not is left for Activisim board discussion.

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It is bad enough going to a restaurant, or to the store and having to listen to others people's conversations. I would prefer not to have to be put through the same torture while on a plane, where my options are limited for blocking them out.