Mobiles on Planes- Oh Joy (NOT!)

Wednesday, March 26. 2008

Mobiles on Planes- Oh Joy (NOT!)

We noted in October 2007 that Ofcom was considering use of mobiles on planes, now its given the thumbs up, says the BBC:

The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom.
It has issued plans that will allow airlines to offer mobile services on UK-registered aircraft.

The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more.

But airlines keen to offer the services must still satisfy other regulators about how the hardware will be used.

Heck - I want to know how the hardware will be used - I am filled with dread at the thought of sitting next to some Bizplonker who yaks at full volume for 2 hours in the air. You can see on trains that when this happens people around get more and more cross and frustrated, and the railways eventually created "quiet coaches" due to all the complaints.

What, one wonders, will the airlines do - they clearly want the loot from a (no doubt very premium) service, but I suspect it will really p*ss off a lot of their customers.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Mobile Web & Multimedia at 15:23 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Emirates were the first to announce (last week) they were allowing mobile calls in-flight. Phones must be on silent, but people will be chattering. Why couldn't they just allow text and mobile web / crackberrymail? Hmm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7308041.stm

#1 Deirdre Molloy (Homepage) on 2008-03-26 16:15 (Reply)

I think mobile phones should be limited to text messaging or data use, but not voice. But I suppose if they get really annoying you could take out a book and reciprocate by reading out loudly til' they get the point.

#2 Timothy McDoniel (Homepage) on 2008-03-26 16:23 (Reply)

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