WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 20, 2004 @06:41AM from the e.t.-phone-home dept.

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."

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The FAA doesn't care. by LOL+WTF+OMG!!!!!!!!! · 2004-04-20 06:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Plenty of phones already have "Airplane Mode".

The stewardess will still attempt to behead you should she see any light emitting from your mobile.

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why bother by fadethepolice · 2004-04-20 06:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

just use ip telephony. just a way for them to fight the inevitable loss of market share. hack your matrix www.asdreams.org