If you would be allowed to phone on board, would this technically work? i thought you must have a transmitter?

First off, broken-down into simple terms,a mobile phone (With respect to cellular, digital %26amp; PCS) is a low-powered transmitter, generally weaker than a handheld radio carried by anyone in public safety.





Secondly, the real reason you can't use a mobile phone (as noted above) is that mobile phones are classified by the Federal Communications Commission as ';Land Mobile Radio Service'; (LMRS) and once you're more than 100 feet above ground such as you would be in an airplane, you're no longer ';land mobile.';





Thirdly, within the confines of current mobile phone technology, mobile phones can't ';change channels'; (moving the call from one tower to the next) fast enough at cruising altitude.





However, there are some rumors floating around that some of the airlines are working to develop technology that would make this possible. Ryanair is one example. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/678d4d72-382c-鈥?/a>If you would be allowed to phone on board, would this technically work? i thought you must have a transmitter?
Your cell phone is a transmitter. That said, it is a transmitter inside an aluminum tube....I have no idea how the signal would get out..... but the yahoos that work in my building seem to get a signal inside an elevator, which is a metal box inside another metal box.....so....what do i know...





The only question in my mind is , at 30,000 feet, are you within range of a cell site.....and if you are, ...can the cell sites hand you off to one another at 500 miles an hour...If you would be allowed to phone on board, would this technically work? i thought you must have a transmitter?
I think yes if there have a coverage.If not we will need to use the transmitter to receive a signal cause u are to far from the receiver.But i will effect the instrument or navigation system on airplane.
On top of the FCC rule, the FAA has their own safety rule that prohibits cell phone use. The readon sited is possible interference a cell could potentially cause in the signal between a plane and air-traffic controllers. So far, they have no reported incidents of that happening. However, considering how frequently new models of phone are released, and that they would all need to be tested for this interference, and every phone that someone tries to use on a plane would have to be checked to see if it is on the ';Approved'; list, it's just too much hassle to bother with.