Grimm vows fight against cell phone use on planes
With everything airline passengers put up with these days – long security checkpoint lines, fees for carry-on bags, bad food – you might have to add one more: having to listen to the idiotic ring tone blaring from the cell phone of the guy sitting next to you.
Brooklyn’s lone Republican congressman came out strongly this week against a plan to allow passengers to make and receive cell phone calls on airplanes during flights, charging that easing restrictions would ruin plane rides by forcing people to listen to the incessant chatter of others.
U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-C-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Staten Island) issued a statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that rather than keep the ban on cell phone use in place, it would open a public comment period. The FCC voted on Dec. 12 to consider lifting the bad, although the panel postponed a final decision until the public comment period is completed.