Brian Case wrote:

Actually it could work very well, and I have seen this proposal from
several different sources. The Idea is to install a low power cell
phone tower into the airliner.

Well, it would work well, but not if they actually used the cellular frequencies
(AMPS). If they installed a PCS processor in the plane, modern PCS phones would
communicate with it and not fall back on the AMPS frequencies.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.