Wait, I'm confused. I thought the reason we had to always turn off our cell phones - or put them in airplane mode - was that the cell signals mess with the aircraft controls or something. No? Or is it a matter of calls only being possible through the inflight wifi that soaks you for another $9.95 on top of everything else? (Not that I hesitate to pay it. Not at all.)
Apparently the bigger concern is that one person yakking on the phone will be annoying to the other passengers. This is a complaint about cell phones that's never made sense to me. If two people are sitting next to each other having a conversation - in which case you hear both ends of the convo - that's perfectly fine. But when you have to hear half the conversation because the other half is on the other end of the phone, that's intolerable? Tell me another one, America.
