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WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes
securitas writes "What if didn't have to turn off your mobile phone when you travel by air? eWEEK's Matthew Broersma reports on a European Commission project to enable mobile phone use on airplanes. The technology works by creating short-range 'picocells' that force transmission output power to drop to 1/1000th of normal, reducing electronic interference, then using a satellite uplink. The WirelessCabin project members include the German Aerospace Centre, Siemens, Ericsson and Airbus. Initial trials will use 'GSM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections' but will add CDMA and 3G standards. WirelessCabin is already making a picocell with CDMA2000. The first demonstrations are scheduled for this summer on Lufthansa long-haul flights with the A340-600 jet."
I'd love to frag some of those Lucky ba*tards up in First class!!
I for one hope that it stays silly expensive to make a call from a plane. Since if it is cheap or free we all know that the percentage of the population that feels the need to talk at thrice the normal volume when talking on a cell phone ("'cause dat other person is way over yonder") will promptly take to sitting in all available seats around us. Oh god!
just let CDMA die, fuck CDMA, and fuck those that use it, and I hope that the companys that use it go chapter 11
Just because you don't seem to have any good social skills doesn't mean the rest of the plane has to "shut the fuck up". I would hate to be your child.
Karnal
Where the fuck are you flying to/from?