[BC] cell phone hash

[Barry Mishkind]

At 03:40 PM 5/3/2005, Kirk Harnack wrote
>Mark Humphrey wrote:
>>I had always thought the bigger problem with using cell phones while
>>in flight was that they could hit too many cell sites simultaneously,
>>causing interference or erratic operation.  That's why I'm surprised
>>there is talk of relaxing the current restrictions .
>
>Mark, you're right.  I'm not sure if cell phone are likely to interfere 
>with properly-working avionics, but a single cell phone will, indeed, 
>illuminate many cell sites.

         That may be true, but wouldn't software be
         a simple solution, picking *one* site to
         communicate?  Otherwise the "hand-off"
         wouldn't work on terrestrial sites... and
         there would be constant confusion at the
         edges of each cell's coverage.