Gadget overlap is making the FAA ’s rules against cellphones on flight look somewhat arbitrary . mightily now it ’s OK to use a wireless PDA to check into your e-mail in - flight , but connecting to the same cellular electronic web on the same frequency with a cellphone is against the pattern . The jury is still out on whether cellular phone actually interfere with seafaring , but it is pretty clear that the airline suffer a lot to drop off if passengers are able to use their cellphones for call option rather than those horridly expensive AirPhones . Of course since getting stuck sitting next to someone confabulate away on their cellphone is even worse on an airplane than it is on a jitney or in a restaurant , mayhap it ’s not so bad that arrive at a call in - flight of steps price $ 4 a minute .
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