Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Cell phone use from aircraft have been allowed in Canada for quite some
time.

And it will become legal in the US whenever 1) the FCC gets motivated to change
it, and 2) the wireless service providers agree that the regulation is unnecessary.

I think it more likely that the old AMPS system will gradually be replaced with
PCS and the issue will become moot.

George Patterson
Whosoever bloweth not his own horn, the same shall remain unblown.