Cell phones in airplanes don't work very well because the phone can see perhaps hundreds of cell sites simultaneously from the air causing handoff problems:
Patience. Your crater might arrive eventually. An LAX ATC tried by aiming a Boeing 777 Dreamliner at Mt Wilson in order to produce the required crater: Since that failed, it might be possible to attempt to burn it down again, once the trees and brush grow back:
The bottom line is that cell phone interference is unlikely, but still too much of a potential problem to risk a disaster. Better safe than sorry. Besides, I don't want to fly in an airplane full of people trying to yell over the engine noise into their cell phones.
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I wonder why such things are not regulated from the highest level possibly in any country. Seems absurd to my that anything smaller than a state has to regulate towers.
I'm not going to speculate why, but the various parts of cell tower installation are divided between Federal, State, and local authorities by areas of influence. Anything that has to do with RF is owned by the FCC. Anything that has to do with aviation hazards, is run by the FAA and managed by the FCC. The FCC also deals with licenses, auctions, and protecting monopolies. If there are local public utilities commissions involved, then those are run by the State. Site selection, co-location, construction practices, aesthetics, compliance the local general plan, and taxing users, are handled by the local authorities (city and/or county).
It might be possible to consolidate all these into some kind of national personal communications bureaucracy, which would run things at all levels. To some extent, that's roughly what happened when the DHS (dept of homeland security) was established in 2001. I believe that might be what you're suggesting. Yes, it could be done, but do we really need yet another bureaucracy when the inefficient but tolerably effective existing tangle of overlapping agencies, departments, and boards are adequate? Sometimes, they need a kick in the posterior, as with the FCC imposing a "shot clock" to get things moving, but mostly, things lurch and blunder forward without bloodshed or additional taxes.
Also, the cellular industry basically started in about 1990 and is now only 27 years old. In another 15 years or so, we'll probably be overly connected at gigabit speeds going to work via virtual reality and traveling around via augmented reality. Creating yet another bureaucracy just to speed up the process doesn't seem like a great idea. We may even be communicating by telepathy via implants. Be patient. The future will arrive at the usual erratic pace quite nicely without faster regulations and additional bureaucracy.
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Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
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