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Mobile Phone Technology for Airplanes, Introduced Till September 2007
Mobile phone calls will be a common thing on planes.
The high-altitude telecom equipment will turn phone calls on planes highly common, as another 2-3 operators are developing the technology.
The new technology will be used only above 3,000 m (9,000 ft), four minutes after takeoff and kept until 10 minutes before landing.
Originally posted by impressme
Mobile Phone Technology for Airplanes, Introduced Till September 2007
Mobile phone calls will be a common thing on planes.
The high-altitude telecom equipment will turn phone calls on planes highly common, as another 2-3 operators are developing the technology.
The new technology will be used only above 3,000 m (9,000 ft), four minutes after takeoff and kept until 10 minutes before landing.
news.softpedia.com...
Will only be used under 9,000 ft Oh, why not at 30,000 feet like all the calls on 911 that were made. Hmmm one has to wonder
It appears that the technology in the cell phone industry was not that good in 2001.
If it was so great why would the airline companies want to spend million of dollars on something they don’t need in 2007?
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
reply to post by Lillydale
Its too bad you dont want to go through the documents. They asnwer a lot of questions. However, here are a few spots you can look in this document for answers.
911myths.com...
Page 4...notes on interview with Craig Marquis, employee of American Airlines, about his phone call from Betty Ong.
Page 23...notes on interview with Phyllis Johnson, Verizon/GTE Airfone customer service, on receiving a call which her system indicated originated from Flight 93.
Pages 45-52...notes/documentation on calls made, including credit card numbers used.
Again, the cell calls were made a lower altitude on 9/11. 30,000 is a cruising altitude and the calls were made in a last few minutes. Eyewitness accounts put the jet under a 10k ceiling by that point.
Look into US cell service and not Europe. Also, it says The new technology will be used only above 3,000 m (9,000 ft), four minutes after takeoff and kept until 10 minutes before landing. ABOVE 9000 feet. Again, you have posted something that debunks yourself. Do you not proof read nor do your star givers?
The new technology will be used only above 3,000 m (9,000 ft), four minutes after takeoff and kept until 10 minutes before landing.
Altitude and Cellphone Transmission
According to industry experts, the crucial link in wireless cell phone transmission from an aircraft is altitude. Beyond a certain altitude which is usually reached within a few minutes after takeoff, cell phone calls are no longer possible.
In other words, given the wireless technology available on September 11 2001, these cell calls could not have been placed from high altitude.
The only way passengers could have got through to family and friends using their cell phones, is if the planes were flying below 8000 feet. Yet even at low altitude, below 8000 feet, cell phone communication is of poor quality.
The crucial question: at what altitude were the planes traveling, when the calls were placed?
While the information provided by the Commission is scanty, the Report's timeline does not suggest that the planes were consistently traveling at low altitude. In fact the Report confirms that a fair number of the cell phone calls were placed while the plane was traveling at altitudes above 8000 feet, which is considered as the cutoff altitude for cell phone transmission.
Let us review the timeline of these calls in relation to the information provided by the Report on flight paths and altitude.
United Airlines Flight 175
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Concluding Remarks
A large part of the description, regarding the 19 hijackers relies on cell phone conversations with family and friends.
While a few of these calls (placed at low altitude) could have got through, the wireless technology was not available. On this issue, expert opinion within the wireless telecom industry is unequivocal.
In other words, at least part of the Commission's script in Chapter 1 on the cell phone conversations, is fabricated.
According to the American Airline / Qualcomm announcement, the technology for cell phone transmission at high altitude will only be available aboard commercial aircraft in 2006. This is an inescapable fact.
In the eyes of public opinion, the cell phone conversations on the Arab hijackers is needed to sustain the illusion that America is under attack.
The "war on terrorism" underlying the National Security doctrine relies on real time "evidence" concerning the Arab hijackers. The latter personify, so to speak, this illusive "outside enemy" (Al Qaeda), which is threatening the homeland.
Embodied into the Commission's "script" of 911, the narrative of what happened on the plane with the Arab hijackers is therefore crucial. It is an integral part of the Administration's disinformation and propaganda program. It constitutes a justification for the anti-terror legislation under the Patriot acts and the waging of America's pre-emptive wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.
Why did Ted Olsen lie?
Air Fone used a multiplexed VHF (thats Very High Frequency) radio link -
to communicate with ground stations linked into the telephone system
The phones were in a cradle in the seat backs . People could use a credit
card to place calls from the aircraft.
It is not a cell phone !
Smashed Air Fone recovered from Flight 93 scene
So what is your problem....?
Why did Ted Olsen lie?
Well if you still think he lied, then you also think that the other four people who were on the phone with Barbara that morning are also lying. Again, we get back to your habit of calling everyone who disagrees with you a liar.
BREAKING 9/11 NEWS: FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED !!
Could Barbara Olson Have Made Those Calls?
Pentagon 9/11: Barbara olson's Phone Calls Didn't Happen!
Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. A report of that interview indicates that Olson told the FBI agents that his wife had called him twice from Flight 77.10 And yet the FBI’s report on calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred.
This was an amazing development: The FBI is part of the Department of Justice, and yet its report undermined the well-publicized claim of the DOJ’s former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11.
Olson’s Story Also Rejected by Pentagon Historians
Ted Olson’s story has also been quietly rejected by the historians who wrote Pentagon 9/11, a treatment of the Pentagon attack put out by the Department of Defense.11
U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson Lied about 9/11: FBI Now Admits his Wife Couldn’t Have Called Him from Hijacked Plane
Ted Olson’s Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11: Three Official Denials
BREAKING 9/11 NEWS: FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by impressme
but I can't help but wonder if there isn't a profit motive behind some of this tomfoolery.
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