Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: tel@cdsdb1.att.com (Thomas E Lowe) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phones in the Movies Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 15:39:33 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe,ho,) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 512, message 4 of 12 >Certainly the most shocking use of a phone in the movies comes from >the Depeche Mode concert film "Route 66" earlier this year, which >shows the band's manager using a cellular phone while in a private >plane which is airborne. If I remember correctly, it isn't illegal to use a cellular phone in a private plane. The reason they are illegal in 'public' planes is because they can interfere with the electronics in the cock pit and elsewhere on the plane and the pilot as little control over that. In a private plane, the pilot supposedly has total control, so it he is getting interference, it is up to him to stop it. Also, because of the signal pattern of cellular ground stations, cellular phones shouldn't work to well in the air. I do believe this was actually discussed a while back here in Telecom. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Tom Lowe tel@cdsdb1.ATT.COM attmail!tlowe 201-949-0428 AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room 2E-637A Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733 (R) UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T (keep them lawyers happy!!)