[time-nuts] Boeing 787 GPS reception trouble

Michael Spacefalcon msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG
Mon Jun 2 12:53:10 EDT 2014


Said Jackson <saidjack at aol.com> wrote:

> Wonderful. It also means cell phones will crank up their power
> searching for a signal [...]

At least with GSM, a mobile station needs to receive a base station
signal before it transmits anything at all.  If no cell network signals
are received at all, the mobile should not be transmitting anything at
all either, as without a base station signal it has no idea what
frequency channel it should be transmitting on, etc.  I would think
that the same principle would hold for all other widely deployed cell-
phone technologies..

> Thankfully there are alternative ways to fly.

Such as?

SF


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