The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (HANG UP) Act. In flight calls have been banned for a long time and we all know that we are supposed to switch off our mobiles during a flight. Personally I think this is a great move, who wants to be stuck next to a chatterbox glued to the mobile, next to you on a flight. This bill will permanent the long-standing ban on in-flight cell phone calls by the FAA and FCC. Peter DeFazio a Democrat representative of Oregon who co-sponsored the HANG UP Act, says, 'Polls show the public overwhelmingly doesn't want to be subjected to people talking on their cell phones on increasingly over-packed airplanes. However, with Internet access just around the corner on U.S. flights, it won't be long before the ban on voice communications on in-flight planes is lifted. Cash-strapped airlines could end up charging some passengers to use their phones while charging others to sit in a phone-free section of the plane.'

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