IP: Re: Cell time for using cell phone

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> 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
>
> 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:
>
>  >>>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.