Saturday, November 13, 2010

Inflight mobile demand to remain low

The aviation industry has recently moved from implementing a total ban of mobile phones on flight to fully embracing its usage, with several airliners signing up with technology partners to provide a suite of mobile telephony services onboard.

Paul Charles, former communications director at Virgin Atlantic, said this change in sentiments was the result of the completion of various trials, allowing airlines to now be certain mobile phones can be used safely onboard aircrafts.

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