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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:21:35 GMT
- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Cell Phones in the Air
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- Slightly diverging from the topic here, but I was wondering about the
- air-phone service that is now fairly common on US carriers. While on a
- trip to the US each time I flew (usually United) the air hostesses
- would always invite us to use the service, especially convenient since
- the phones were located in the seat in front of us (at least on some
- of the smaller planes like 737's). This led me to think about the
- movie Die Hard II where air phones figure prominently in the plot. In
- some sequence, our hero gets paged by his wife from a plane, he checks
- the pager and calls her back on the plane. Is this possible or some
- Hollywood license? I never noticed any numbers on the air phone which
- indicated you could call one. Just wondering ...
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- Laurence Chiu lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz
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