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Airlines Permit to Use Mobile Phones While Flying
October 20, 2007 at 4:48 PM
General Health News
UK phone regulator Ofcom's decision is likely to see the destruction of yet another sanctuary from the irritating ring tone, reports the Daily Mail.
Similar services are already available on aircraft registered elsewhere in the world. However, if the move is cleared licences could be issued to UK airlines as early as next year.
Ofcom believes access to voice calls, text messages and the ability to surf the Internet via a laptop or Blackberry would be a valuable inflight service.
It is, however, concerned that airlines should minimise the potential levels of annoyance from loud 'I'm-on-the-plane'-style conversations.
This could mean the introduction of quiet zones.
Ofcom said it wanted to 'create opportunities for companies to develop innovative technologies'.
In reality though, the move would allow airlines to cash in by heaping on extra charges to use mobiles at 30,000 feet.
Calls will be billed through passengers' normal service providers.
However, it is likely an international premium that could double or treble the normal charge would be applied.
Ofcom said aircraft would be fitted with an on-board base station. This would connect via a radio link to passengers' mobile phones and beam the signals to a space satellite.
These would be bounced to a dish on the ground and then directed into the landline and mobile mast network. The system would be reversed for calls from the ground.
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