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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16624)	9/8/2000 7:25:33 PM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice, But the nearest cellphone tower would tell the handset to just whisper, so there wouldn't be too many base stations affected [though even a whisper can carry a long way on a clear night with no trees and buildings in the way]. Not necessarily. The base station antennas are very directional vertically, so the nearby ones would not see a very strong signal and the phone might well transmit at full power. In cities there may be hundreds of base stations per square mile, with great reuse of channels. A hundred people all calling from an aircraft might well cause mayhem to the network operators. Of course, this would not be a problem for G*. John

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16624)	9/8/2000 11:41:35 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 29987

Current Democrat controlled FCC will never approve G* phones for airlines, because it is an American company and the plan is to sell all US carriers to foreigners so that we can have more competition. Maybe, the Europeans and Japanese will pay more $ when they enter the revolving door. In addition, they believed Nextel when Nextel said it could build a cell tower 40,000 feet high; FCC still waiting.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16624)	9/9/2000 3:31:14 PM
From: Kathleen capps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Maurice, About 5 years ago, the WSJ had a long article about a large jumbo jet that experienced problems in the air which seemed to be initiated by a passenger using a toshiba laptop. It's been a while since I read the article but I remember that it said that the flight crew were asked by the pilots to "quietly" go through the plane and locate any passangers using electonic devices. Then they individually were asked to turn them off and see what happened. When the guy with the laptop turned his off, the planes problems were resolved. If I remember correctly, the article said that after the flight when the pilots notifed whomever is responsible for such stuff, they tried to track down the passanger with the problem laptop but were not able to find him, nor replicate the problem with other laptops. Kat