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How to Eliminate the Use of Mobile Telecommunication Services Near the Airport
Mobile communication happens across three areas. One is the communication from the have the base transceiver station to the mobile. Right now these are normally high power which can potentially interfere and spill over to the RODR altimeter man. The second one is the frequency that is emanating from the mobile handset to the base Transceiver station. Normally it is of much lesser power and therefore it is unlikely that this will interfere with the altimeter. Third one which is quite dangerous is the mobile phones on the flight which are accidentally switched on. Of course all the aircrafts have been mandated to instruct the users to you know switch off either switch off the mobile phones or put it in airplane mode especially at the
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