IP: Re: Cell time for using cell phone

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:08:22 -0600
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu, ip-sub-1@admin.listbox.com
>From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
>Subject: Re: IP: Cell time for using cell phone
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>The most telling thing about this incident -- not recorded in all accounts,
>alas -- is that the man who was jailed was NOT MAKING A CALL. He was entering 
>a text message into the phone for later transmission.
>
>In short, the amount of interference he caused was likely no greater than
>would have occurred if his cell phone had turned on in a pocket or briefcase
>as a result of being bumped -- or had been left on so as to receive incoming
>calls and then forgotten.
>
>--Brett Glass
>
>At 09:41 AM 7/22/99 -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
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>  >>>Cell time for using cell phone
> > >>By Daniel Simpson, Reuters
> > >>July 21, 1999 11:28 AM PT
> > >>URL:
> > >><http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2298512,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014>
> > >>MANCHESTER, England -- A judge sentenced a British oil worker Wednesday to
> > >>an unprecedented one year's jail time for endangering an international
> > >>flight by refusing to switch off his mobile phone.
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>