Paul R. Roth, Cingular’s executive vice president for external affairs, has written the FCC stating the company’s position: “We believe there is a time and a place for wireless phone conversations, and seldom does that include the confines of an airplane flight.”
Company spokesman Mark Siegel told The New York Times: “It really is an issue to us of – dare I say it? – basic courtesy. We think there’s a place to use cell phones and to talk on them, and there are places not to. For example, a theater, a crowded restaurant or, God forbid, a house of worship. One of the other places where you shouldn’t be talking on a wireless phone, we think, is in an airliner up at 35,000 feet where you have 150, 250 people who are captive in a closed space.”
