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Cell phone use on planes has been heavily debated as the airline industry attempts to keep up with ever-changing technology. It’s standard practice to be told by flight attendants to switch devices to airplane mode during transit; but what happens if you don’t follow directions? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t that clear. 
  
 Let’s start with some of the initial research. The reason for potential safety concerns is due to the fact that when you’re more than 10,000 feet in the air, your cell phone signal bounces off multiple towers and sends out a stronger signal. This is something that might congest the networks on the ground. But, there has never been a case of a cell phone causing a plane to crash. 
  
 “It’s not necessarily that a phone can bring down an airplane,” former Boeing engineer Kenny Kirchoff has said. “That’s not really the issue. The issue is interfering with the airplane and causing more work for the pilots during critical phases of flight. When they take off and when they land, those are phases of flight that require a high level of concentration by the pilots.” 
  
 But, with the advancement of modern technology these risks are becoming more obsolete. In fact, in 2014 the European Aviation Safety Agency (Europe’s version of the FAA) said that electronic devices pose no safety risk, although it was up to the airline to prove their systems were not affected by the signals of cell phones. 
  
 Many airlines have gone through this assessment and actually allow in-flight calls to be made through onboard cellular network companies like AeroMobile and On Air. Those companies serve major airlines like Emirates, Virgin, British Airways, and at least 27 others. On Air actually connects more than half the world’s A380 fleet. 
  
 That being said FAA still prohibits voice communications on cell phones. “Voice communications on cell phones is prohibited by FAA and FCC rules,” Elizabeth Isham Cory, from the FAA’s External Communications/Public Affairs office, told Travel + Leisure. “The FAA bans the use of cell phones for safety reasons. FAA regulations prohibit anything that intentionally emits a signal, which includes cells phones used for voice communications. It would be up to an airline to demonstrate that a call phone does not cause electronic interference. Cell phones cause electronic interference.” 
  
 Although, a study done by the FAA in 2012 also concluded that “civil aviation authorities reported no confirmed occurrences of cell phones affecting flight safety on aircraft with on-board cellular telephone base stations.” These miniature base stations are called picocells, and they give passengers the capability of cell phone use without affecting the instrumentation on board. 
  
 “More modern electronics are shielded from interruptions,” Allison Markey, an aviation safety professional told us. “There is no magic gauge in the cockpit that shows that there is a phone with its cellular connection or Wi-Fi not turned off.” The FCC agrees about this technology, but still remains unclear as to when, how or if it will be allowed. 
  
 The FCC’s current rules prohibiting use of cellphones on planes were adopted more than 20 years ago to protect against radio interference to cellphone networks on the ground,” it says on the FCC website. “Technology that can be installed directly on an airplane is now available to prevent such interference and has already been deployed successfully in many other countries around the world without incident. This is purely a technical decision; it will, if adopted, allow airline carriers free to develop any in-flight phone usage policy they may wish, consistent with applicable rules.” 
  
 They go on to be a bit more confusing when answering questions like “How soon could voice calling become a reality on planes?” “Ultimately, if the FCC adopts new rules, it will be the airlines’ decision, in consultation with their customers whether to permit the use of data, text and/or voice services while airborne,” they wrote. The FCC does make a point to say that they “understand that many passengers would prefer that voice calls not be made on airplanes.” 
  
 Perhaps that’s the main reason why there is a ban on use currently in the U.S. “As for cell phone use on aircraft, the technology exists, but the hesitance is, again, public demand,” Markey said. “More passengers view this as an annoyance rather than a benefit of travel. It is bad enough being a passenger close to people who talk loudly to their neighboring passengers; add cell phone use and the result may be worse than the few seat reclining events of late.” 
  
 This article originally appeared on TravelandLeisure.com ||||| Federal regulators are withdrawing a proposal that would have allowed air travelers to use their cellphones at high altitude. 
  
 The proposal — introduced in 2013 by then-chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler — sought to roll back a long-standing regulation that banned the use of cellphones on planes over concerns that cellular signals could interfere with pilot radios. New advances in in-flight communications have minimized those concerns, Wheeler argued at the time, a trend that meant the ban could be lifted. 
  
 Under the proposal, passengers would still have been required to keep their phones turned off or on airplane mode during takeoff and landing, but they could have switched on their connections at cruising altitude. 
  
 The decision Monday to reverse the proposal came from Wheeler's successor, Ajit Pai. Calling the plan “ill-conceived,” Pai said in a statement that he did not believe it served the public interest. 
  
 “Taking it off the table permanently will be a victory for Americans across the country who, like me, value a moment of quiet at 30,000 feet,” Pai said. He did not elaborate on why he chose this moment to act. 
  
 The proposal was initially met with public backlash, particularly from trade groups representing pilots and flight attendants. Many opponents argued that relaxation of the ban would result in passengers disturbing one another with noisy phone calls, and Wheeler was effectively forced to abandon the issue for the remainder of his term. 
  
 The Consumer Technology Association, which supported the proposal, declined to comment. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which opposed the proposal, welcomed its demise. 
  
 "The FCC is making the right decision not to pursue lifting the ban on in-flight calls," said Taylor Garland, a spokesman for the labor union. "The traveling public and crew members do not want voice calls on planes." 
  
 Asked whether the union also took a position on the use of cellular data on planes, Garland said "due diligence requires a thorough assessment of the potential security risks… and mitigation of any risks." 
  
 While most consumers may have difficulty getting a cellular signal at 30,000 feet, changes in technology are increasingly enabling the use of cellular networks in the air. Communications satellites, drones and even lasers have been proposed as ways to get connectivity to hard-to-reach areas. This could ultimately mean more competition against in-flight WiFi, which is often derided as expensive and slow. 
  
 Had Wheeler's proposal been approved, it would have fallen to individual airlines to decide how and when to equip their planes with equipment to support in-flight cellular service. In a testimony before Congress, Wheeler said that the Federal Aviation Administration would work on crafting a rule to address voice calls on planes. The FAA had previously ruled that it is safe to switch on small electronic devices during all phases of flight, provided the devices are on airplane mode. |||||
Overhearing some loudmouth's phone conversation is bad enough on the street or at a restaurant, but nobody wants to be sitting next to that person for the duration of a flight. And that may be the real reason the FCC continues to ban voice calls on phones, even though the decades-old rule was written with safety as the primary concern, reports Time. In fact, as cell phone technology advances, the threat of cellular signals interfering with the plane doesn't really exist anymore. No phone has ever brought down a plane, and the European Aviation Safety Agency concluded after a 2014 review that electronic devices pose no safety risk. Even the FCC has changed its official stance in recent years, noting that technology that can be installed on planes to prevent whatever interference may exist "has already been deployed successfully in many other countries around the world without incident." Even so, new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has called a proposal to allow the use of cell phones at high altitude "ill-conceived" and took it off the table altogether, reports the Washington Post, referring not to safety issues but the "value" of "a moment of quiet at 30,000 feet." But while "there is no magic gauge in the cockpit that shows that there is a phone with its cellular connection or WiFi not turned off," an aviation safety specialist tells Time, no one would have any doubt if you're gabbing away to Aunt Rita. (That FCC proposal would have allowed airlines to write their own rules on in-flight gabbing.)