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Story: Europe edges closer to mobile phones on planes
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Lufthansa did a study some years back, where it concluded that on average there is more than one phone left on on every flight. And that was then.
I've got two phones now, my personal mobile and the work smartphone, and last time I went to the US I forgot to turn the latter off (I'd shoved it in my hand luggage to get through security, and forgotten it was there). It bleeped as I got off the plane at San Francisco; I dug it out and read the text message that said: "Welcome to T-Mobile Iceland". So not only had it been squonking away for twelve hours, it had managed to log onto a base station from 38000 feet (albeit for just long enough for the system to recognise it, and not long enough to receive the text).
If this WAS a problem, then there wouldn't just be a ban - there'd be mobile phone detectors on board, like smoke detectors. There aren't. It's not a problem.
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