Venkatarangan Blog

Nowadays with Mobile Phones proliferating everywhere, there seems to be a severe lack of Etiquette on how people use them on Public Places. Many don’t keep their phones in Silent mode during musical concerts, films or even business meetings. If you are travelling in Bus, Train or waiting somewhere the person next to you invariably keeps talking very loudly disturbing your peace. The only peaceful place you get is when you are traveling by airplane. For many years, few engineers were saying that more than the security aspect of using mobile phones on board – the reason it is banned is due to the chaos they can cause by connecting to multiple cell towers at once; as all the towers appear unidistance from the sky.  Now this peace seems to disturbed by the recent FCC announcements in USA – read this MSNBC Technology article on this.