Air France tests cell services in Europe
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Air France has become the first airline to offer international passengers e-mail and text-messaging service that's based on standard cell phone technology.
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The European Commission has given mobile network operators until July 1 to cut the cost of using mobile data services while traveling abroad or face regulation.
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Low-cost airline easyJet hopes to roll out self-service check-in kiosks at airports across Europe if a test of the time-saving method is a success in Geneva, its busiest winter destination, a top official said.
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Finnair will enable passengers to send mobile text messages and e-mails on flights to the Far East starting next month.The service will become possible on satellite telephones provided at each seat of the airline's new Airbus A340 aircraft, to be delivered in June. It will first be available on routes from Helsinki to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Nagoya, and Shanghai, China.Passengers will be able to read and answer messages and mail sent from the ground. Each sent or received message will cost $2, the Finnish carrier said. Passengers will be able to call each other during flights. Read more
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French airline Air France said Wednesday it planned to trial biometric boarding passes that would allow passengers to be fast-tracked through airport checks using a scan of their fingerprint.
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The battle for Poland's low-cost air travel market is taking to the skies, as competing carriers last week announced plans to expand their services in the European Union's biggest new member state.
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Apple&#39;s iPhone will operate in Europe on slower, 2.5 generation mobile networks, and will not use the 3G infrastructure of such companies as Vodafone, according to people close to the situation
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OnAir said Wednesday that it had signed up its first customer to provide in-flight mobile phone use in Europe. RyanAir, a budget airline, would retrofit its entire fleet of Boeing 737's with the company's mobile solution.
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T-Mobile International is testing the waters of Flarion Technologies' FLASH-OFDM in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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By Victor Godinez, The Dallas Morning News  Jun. 23--PARIS -- Many of the fanciful technologies and programs unveiled at the Paris Air Show this week won't survive their first contact with the real world of budget cuts and customer demand.
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Cell phones and wireless devices pass Airbus's onboard tests with flying colors.
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European planemaker Airbus reported progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006.
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T-Mobile is testing a service that combines VoIP and cellular access in hopes of catching up with its competitors.
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The amount consumers are charged for making mobile phone calls while abroad is to be investigated by EU regulators.
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The top telecommunications agency in the U.K. has proposed rules that would enable airline passengers to use their cell phones.
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In these days of jittery travel, sometimes just a phone call can ground an airplane. Over the past week and a half, false bomb threats have forced at least half a dozen flights to make emergency landings in Europe, frightening passengers, tangling schedules and costing airlines big money.
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European planemaker Airbus reported  progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use  mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006.