It links to a Washington Post registration-only story, but Textually is reporting that the FCC is meeting to consider removing or loosening a ban on cell phone use in airplanes. Although most phones aren’t going to work at cruising altitudes, the ban of wireless devices and other possibly electromagnetic-polluting gadgets has only ever been speculative. Granted, it’s a good area to be cautious in—the whole plunging to your death thing is way below ‘smothered to death by a truckload of bacon’ on my Plans for Dying—but it’s probably time to loosen up the regulations.
Cell Phones In Flight Considered [Textually]
