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Should Cell Phones Be Allowed To Be Used For Voice Calls on Airplanes?

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  1. 1. Should Cell Phone Voice Calls Be Allowed On Airplanes?

    • Yes.
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    • No.
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    • Not Sure. (Explain.)
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  2. 2. Would You Be Annoyed By Someone Sitting Next To You On The Phone?

    • Yes, it'd be quite annoying!
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    • No, would be that big of a deal.
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    • Depends on how long the flight is.
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The personal & business dramas are indeed annoying.

When I used to take the commuter train

(I take bus+subway now and it's half the price & less annoying)

I used to hear stuff like, "3 million, that's ridiculous; don't offer them a penny more!"

and they would go on and on and on and on like a spoiled kid in the schoolyard.

That kind of talk makes me think of guns & ammo on my next trip... :P;)

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Don't some of the commuters there (NYC) play their "music" wayyyyyyyy too loud (as they do here)? (if one can tune-out these, cellphone-converstations are duck-soup to tune-out :P)

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Don't some of the commuters there (NYC) play their "music" wayyyyyyyy too loud (as they do here)? (if one can tune-out these, cellphone-converstations are duck-soup to tune-out :P)

Yes that does occasionally happen as you say but mostly you have cell phones

going that you can't hear. It's unbelievable how loud some of these geniuses

must be playing their "toons" as it has to penetrate their ear membranes to be

audible to 3rd parties :bonk:

The days of boom boxes are pretty much gone since the iPod & headphones

came on the scene, but it's amazing what you can hear despite the headphones. :help:

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I think more airlines should make free or low-cost wi-fi universally available and then we wouldn't have to worry about this problem. If passengers had the option to e-mail, facebook, chat, etc over the internet, I don't think anyone would be too bummed about not being able to make voice calls.

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I think more airlines should make free or low-cost wi-fi universally available and then we wouldn't have to worry about this problem. If passengers had the option to e-mail, facebook, chat, etc over the internet, I don't think anyone would be too bummed about not being able to make voice calls.

When airtran installed wifi on their planes it was free for the first few weeks or so, that was fab, booked airtran over US Air just for that reason.

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I answered that No, there should not be any legislation about using cell phones. If there is no technical justification (ie: interferes with the operation of the plane) then we shouldn't legislate against it just because it's annoying, or we think it is bad manners. You can't make laws based on manners!

I also answered that I do find it annoying, but I also find planes to be very noisy, and always travel equipped with the ability to block out all noise, be it cell phone talkers or screaming babies.

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No i don't think it should be allowed because people get pissy on flights as it is, esp long hauls, they're just asking for "air-phone-rage". I can just imagine someone trying to sleep and hearing an obnoxiously loud conversation behind, beside, or in front of them and asking someone politely to keep it down, followed by a "mind your own F'n business" followed by smash bang, arrest blah blah blah. No. definitely not.

I agree with wifi and internet though so if I wanna send a text, or email or something to give a heads up. But who needs to be contactable for 24 hours? Are they really that indispensable? Not like they can really help from a plane anyway... no. no no no. This would drive me insane. I hate the flight to Aus from the US and vice versa, its long and trying enough already, without adding morons on phones.

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IT can be annoying, I was on a 16hours flight, and the person sitting right behind me, kept going on and on on the phone, i guess he had a lot of money to burn, specially when it's a foreign language it seems like it's all noise, and he didn't even try to be discrete, he was going on so loud.

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