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From: "C Krouse" <kc16@qwest.net>
To: "dfs" <dfs@gateway.net>,
	<lancair.list@olsusa.com>
References: <003201c0f146$23b2d0a0$eb6b1b3f@F.Schaefer>
Subject: Re: Cell phone use
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:06:29 -0700
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> The reason the FCC prohibits cell phone use in an airplane when it's in
> flight is to keep your phone from grabbing nearly every cell in your neck
>of the woods in line of sight and swamping the local system.

When most cell phone systems were built around the older analog technology
10 years ago it was possible to swamp a service providers network.  However,
with the dominant technology being CDMA, which is a digital system, the
network can't be swamped.  The network will only allow you to use one cell
site at a time and will proficiently hand you off from cell to cell as you
pass through the system.  The worst that could happen is that your flight
will carry you through the network so fast that the net won't be able to
keep up with your travel path and drop your call.

I for one wish that government agencies would implement a better system of
keeping their codes up to current times.

Curtis Krouse N753K


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