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Old 10th Sep 2002, 20:03
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I think 4 months for a (presumably) first-time non-violent offence might be pushing it a bit, although a bit more of a slap on the wrists was definitely called for.

More interesting to me was judges comments about airlines needing to consider confiscating all mobiles on boarding in future... my Pogo has a mode specifically for aircraft use, whereby the TX/RX component is completely powered-down, but the unit is still usable for playing games.

This is something we'll see more often as we get increasingly-sophisticated combined phone/browser/camera/gameboy devices - cabin crew can't be expected to know how to verify each and every device is in 'safe mode', and we need some policy to handle this. Tantrums and tears ahead...

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