Posted
6/16/2005 05:07:00 PM
by Douglas
Further proof that the idiotic ban on cell phones on
airplanes is perpetuated by the FCC, not the
FAA.Cingular Wireless wants to maintain a ban on cell phone calls aboard airplanes, according to a published report.
USA Today reports Thursday the company has taken that position in a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA and the Federal Communications Commission are looking at lifting the ban on in-flight calls and then using new technology.
"We believe there is a time and a place for wireless phone conversations, and seldom does that include the confines of an airplane flight," Cingular said in its June 8 letter to the FAA, according to the paper.
That may be the funniest damn thing I've ever read. The motivation behind their logic is thinner than Courtney Love's blood after a four day coke binge. Cingular doesn't want you being annoyed by someone having an obnoxious cell-phone conversation (is there any other kind?) on an airplane? Give me a freakin' break. Gee, it wouldn't have anything to do with the airlines forcing you to use their onboard phones to make calls would it?