Mexico to Permit Cell Phones to Be Used on Aircraft

Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) has overturned a law passed in 2001 that banned mobile phones from being used on aircraft. The new regulation still forbids phone use on planes that have not been fitted with specific "in-flight" cellphone equipment.

The law, NOM-019SCT3-2001 was enacted in December 2001, and was overturned following a meeting last August by the National Advisory Committee for the Standardization of Air Transport.

Several airlines, mainly in Europe have run trials of in-flight mobile phone systems, although a US Congressman, Peter DeFazio is trying to push a US law that would ban such systems being used within US airspace.

On the web: El Universal

Posted to the site on 26th July 2009