With the news that the FCC is considering lifting the ban on cell phone use in-flight came a rather strong response from consumers (thus you can derive the direction that conversation has taken since then). On the official FCC blog, acting chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Roger Sherman wrote an empathetic message to fend off the wolves that have been barking at the FCC since it was reported we might be subject to a loud, annoying, one-sided phone conversations.
Of course, like any civil servant that resides inside the DC beltway, Mr. Sherman then proceeded to deflect ...