New Perspective on the Issue of Cell Phone Use in Planes

In emergency situations like this week's attacks, of course, the debate seems trivial.

"It's one thing to talk about cell calls being dropped on the ground or even the disruption of a plane's communications," said Dale N. Hatfield, director of the telecommunications program at the University of Colorado. "It is quite another to imagine what those people were going through when they called their families."

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