Stick a phone 5 miles up and all this network planning goes out the window, it'll block whatever channel its operating on on umpteen base stations,
hang on, lets not forget, a mobile phone does not stick to one channel during operation, not even during a call. Going from cell A to cell B does not require the same channel to available on the new cell. It can and will hop channels, even within one cell. After all, going from one cell to another may take it into a different MSC. Add to this that putting a phone 5 miles in the air, inside an aluminium tube reduces the range of the transmissions from both handset & cell site.
What ever reason a mobile cannot be used in an aircraft does not lie with the mobile operators !
Last edited by phnuff; 29th January 2003 at 12:33.