TV stations parade their best looking and least dressed women to give away cell phones, plane tickets and even cars to the many viewers and callers.
Al Gore, on the phone between plane flights Wednesday, of course, pointed to global warming.
A ringing phone, a plane overhead or a passing truck make her hunker down in fear.
"By phone, on planes and trains, from the racket of factory assembly lines to the quiet of hospital rooms, from the big-town sharpies to unsophisticated villagers, it burned the ears of a nation".
No, the use of phones on planes is banned because they disrupt mobile networks on the ground.
Let's hope that members of Congress, some of whom have mooted bills to ban cell phones on planes as a matter of law, are as wise.
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My colleague has taken the same line as the GBTA and countless Americans who wrote in to the FCC, and argued for "a bit of state interference" to prohibit cell phones on planes.
There's another aspect of the phones-on-planes debate that hasn't gotten as much attention, meanwhile: over the years, our interest in cell phones as calling devices — as opposed to little machines for texting, gaming, and Web-surfing — has languished.
At least one carrier, Sprint PCS, is in favor of loosening the rules on the use of cell phones in planes because "there is no conclusive evidence of interference in the air or on the ground," said Oliver Valente, the company's chief technology officer.
