This just sucks. According to The New York Times:
Federal regulators plan next week to begin considering rules that would end the official ban on cellphone use on commercial flights. Technical challenges and safety questions remain. But if the ban is lifted, one of the last cocoons of relative social silence would disappear, forcing strangers to work out the rough etiquette of involuntary eavesdropping in a confined space.
Imagine a five-hour cross-country flight, on a full plane, with you seated next to a hyperaggressive lawyer playing hardball with some insurance company. In front of a real estate agent returning 20 calls from clients. Behind a guy bragging to his buddy about how wasted he got last night.
Can you imagine anything more annoying? With the possible exception of a Harley-Davidson brand leaf blower, I can’t.
Dear FCC: I don’t care about Janet Jackson showing her boobie for three-tenths pf a second at the Super Bowl. I do care about an airplane full of people chatting on their cellphones. Please get your priorities straight.
Ed Bott 
Anyone get the feeling we’re going to see a rash of new violence on airplanes followed by new rules that prohibit their use? I pray this is all reconsidered. Cellphone-heads are everywhere these days — watch behind home plate of any baseball game and you’ll see how low the gene pool sinks!