Articles tagged with: Inmarsat and Privacy

Passenger In-Flight Mobile Use Exceeds 40% on Malaysia Airlines

Passengers on Malaysia Airlines are proving some of the world's most enthusiastic users of in-flight mobiles as they embrace the AeroMobile service. On some flights, passenger adoption has exceeded 40%. Data devices such as Blackberry are proving popular, with data traffic on some flights exceeding 2MB, the equivalent of 40 Blackberry users sending and receiving email.  more

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Emirates Allowing Cellphone Use in Flight

The airline, Emirates has signed a deal with AeroMobile to offer in-flight mobile phone coverage. AeroMobile, has developed an aircraft system which controls the power output of all mobile phones down to the minimum level allowing their safe use onboard aircraft. The Dubai-based airline expects to launch the service on board one of its Boeing 777s as early as January 2007, once all necessary approvals have been granted. more

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