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Old Oct 14, 2009, 7:04 am
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CCayley
 
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I confess to knowing precisely zero about the technical issues involved, but I fervently hope that no-one will ever be able to prove that using mobiles on aeroplanes is safe, or will ever come up with a technical advance to make them so. If that happened the airlines would be under tremendous pressure from business customers to allow their use on board for conversations as well as silent uses such as texting, email etc.

I'm not sure quite why but there is something about people talking endlessly into their mobile that is deeply irritating. The thought of a cabin full of executives all taking vital calls about their company's important new contract to sell widgets in Peru, or whatever, is an extraordinarily unpleasant one.

Long may "safety" be there as a reason/excuse to stop it happening....
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