michael Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7050576.stm Oh joy, combine this with the noisy child, the wittering hag, the constant "bing bong" noise from the people wanting pillows and the dull throb of the engine / air recirculation system and you have a great air rage recipe. The Nokia ring tone just as you've finally managed to find a yoga position that allows you to sleep followed by the inane ramble of some annoying business type / chav / human. Fingers crossed none of the airlines go for it. The horror... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 TBH they are only confirming what we have all thought/known for years. The anti-mobile campaign was all to get money out of passengers for using the in flight phones. Granted thats mostly in America but thats where its all dealt with. Scott =op Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 As it'll be relying on base stations in the plane, I'm betting that it's still gonna cost a bomb to make a call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Oh well, here we go again! Scott =op Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snooze Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Yeah - sorry people Our guys have been working with Airbus on this for a couple of years now. http://www.onair.aero/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 It's about time they used their heads. I was playing Solitaire on my E65 on the flight back from Spain, with the phone in off-line mode (no radios enabled), and the cheeky bitch went "EXCUSE MECan you turn that off PLEASE" in a really nasty tone. I said "it's off-line" she said "I don't care. turn it off". I suppose I should then have just pulled my laptop out of the hand luggage compartment with its 802.11, Bluetooth and GPRS radios, and played Worms instead. Stupid bitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Hello? What? No! I'm On A Plane! Yeah, It's Really Noisy!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 It's about time they used their heads. I was playing Solitaire on my E65 on the flight back from Spain, with the phone in off-line mode (no radios enabled), and the cheeky bitch went "EXCUSE MECan you turn that off PLEASE" in a really nasty tone. I said "it's off-line" she said "I don't care. turn it off". I suppose I should then have just pulled my laptop out of the hand luggage compartment with its 802.11, Bluetooth and GPRS radios, and played Worms instead. Stupid bitch There was a ranty letter in T3 magazine about this kind of thing ages ago. Some guy had gone to the trouble of buying a phone with an in flight mode but was instructed nonetheless to turn it right off by the cabin crew. The following week they published a letter from a cabin crewmember saying that they sympathised with the guy, but they could not in all honsety be expected to know all the phone makes and models so as to know which could have wireless disabled for flights. I reckon that’s pretty reasonable. Mind you, I would think that flight modes are a lot more common on phones nowadays than back then. I'm sure I've been on some puddle jumper flights that don't allow you to use any electrical equipment-period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Bah http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7314362.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 As it'll be relying on base stations in the plane, I'm betting that it's still gonna cost a bomb to make a call. Agreed. Nice money spinner for the airlines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra-lover Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hello? What? No! I'm On A Plane! Yeah, It's Really Noisy!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonB Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Agreed. Nice money spinner for the airlines. Not really. It costs them a lot of money for the equipment and link - you can't just use normal mobile technology to contact a plane, it needs a quite complex satelite link up. Why shouldn't they make that back from people that absolutely must make calls instead of just waiting until they get where they're going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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