Seeking Air Phone Info Options

[valis]

It has been suggested that phone calls made from 9/11 flights were made through the Verizon AirFone system. I was wondering if anyone here could elaborate on the temporal and physical restraints for this system - and this hypothesis.

I am wondering about the registration process for both new AirFone users - how long does it take to sign up? and current users - How long would it take to swipe a credit card, log in, - and dial? - And does the AirFone system have a directory of sorts - or did all the passengers know all the numbers they were dialing off of the tops of their heads?

Thanks in advance.

cheers

[JerryB9105]

Illinois -- Very, very strange you'd bring this up about Illinois // Tell you why:

Back in early 2002, I made numerous road trips home to Southern Illinois (visiting my mother); and while I'm away like that I like to keep in touch with my wife back home in Maryland. Seemed like my cell phone signal would go blank right at the border of Indiana/Illinois and stay off (i.e, no signal at all -- none) all the way across the entire State of Illinois. At the time there wasn't any towers I could see along I-70 (in Illinois) and I pretty much figured that to be the reason // nothing much along there except wide open spaces and cornfields. And you surely realize, I-70 carries directly across Ohio into Indiana into Illinois -- and onwards.

Cellphone difficulties has been changed since, however; I can testify to that because of a trip I made last month -- there was no problem with signal at all, all was perfect -- all the way from Indiana border to Missouri border. But not back in the year 2002.

typo

This post has been edited by JerryB9105: Nov 29 2006, 05:07 PM