The US Federal Communications Commission is reconsidering its long-standing policy to ban the use of mobile phones on airplanes. The ban has always been justified by concerns that radio signals from the mobile phone's transmitter could interfere with the plane's navigation equipment. Concrete evidence of such interference, however, is limited, and some suspect the reason may relate more to the impact on the mobile phone networks of several hundred mobile phones all switching cells at the same time, particularly in low-capacity rural areas.
The FCC's decision to review the policy does not mean that it will be lifted, but that it may be lifted at some point in the future.
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