Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: ijk@violin.att.com (Ihor J Kinal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Airphones and Receiving Calls Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 21:39:39 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 138, Message 3 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article , lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > It's simply much easier to have only dial-out. If you need the > opposite direction, that's why they make SkyPager: an alphanumeric > pager that works all over the country, including in planes. Since the pager is an electronic device, is its use authorized by the FAA? [Remember someone who had a cellular phone active in his luggage, and it received a call, activating a SMOKE DETECTOR - rather embarrassing to explain, don't you think!!!] Also, the SKYPAGER is not a SATELLITE broadcast of a paging signal, it's merely a satellite broadcast to numerous city broadcast towers, which then broadcast the paging signal. Coverage is NOT guaranteed nation-wide, by their own admission. #include 'standard disclaimers' Ihor Kinal att!cbnewsh!ijk