Subject:  (Curry) (DePippo) Cell Phones To Be Banned at Pumps (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 18 Jan 1999 041736 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:30:47 -0700
From: "Bill P. Curry" 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: (DePippo) Cell Phones To Be Banned at Pumps (fwd)

Roy,
	Peter's report is very interesting. In addition, several articles on the
general subject of interference by passenger consumer electronic devices on
airplanes have been printed in IEEE Spectrum. I would like to add, however,
that while there are potentialities for interference of cell phones with
NAV/COM gear, another factor is the fact that the transmission from altitude
would probably swamp the ground based systems, because the signal would be
received in more than one cell simultaneously.  Another factor, of course, is
that the airlines provide commercial air telephone systems and wouldn't want
competition with these.
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