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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5598)	1/3/2003 12:30:13 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12229

If Boeing doesn't like the risk of people using cellphones, they should harden their useless aircraft to ensure extraneous consumer electronics [or terrorist electronics for that matter] are not able to incapacitate the aircraft. I assume you have some suggestions? If so, I will do my best to pass them along, although Boeing may take exception to you calling their airplanes "useless." ;) M

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5598)	1/3/2003 2:17:22 PM
From: pheilman_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12229

< If Boeing doesn't like the risk of people using cellphones, they should harden their useless aircraft to ensure extraneous consumer electronics [or terrorist electronics for that matter] are not able to incapacitate the aircraft.> Maurice, you must know that the rule for turning off cellphones aboard planes came from the FCC, not the FAA. Cellphones at altitude see too many towers and are in too many nets. Not healthy for the networks. Besides, one of the phones was a high interference TDMA model by Nokia. Pulses are more likely to interfere with other RF systems. Paul