In-Flight Mobile Calls Face Ban Under Bill From House Transportation Panel Chairman
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Let's see: Now we have a powerful Congressman telling passengers to keep their personal lives to themselves as one of his arguments against in-flight voice calls. Passengers on European, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American Airlines have been making in-flight voice calls for years, and without major flareups.
In-flight calls from mobile devices would be banned under a bill that the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure planned to introduce today.
Under Representative Bill Shuster's bill, the Transportation Secretary would issue regulations banning passenger voice calls from all mobile devices during passenger flights -- from takeoff until landing -- although members of the flight crew
