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 thatâs based on standard cellphone technology.
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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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Hello, I'm over the Atlantic Ryanair passengers will soon be able to make and receive GSM phone calls in the air.â¦
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European mobile networks may be urging Apple to add 3G support in the iPhone.
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LONDON Orange, a unit of France TÃ©lÃ©com, rolled out its third-generation mobile phone services Monday in France and Britain, joining the growing ranks of cellular operators hoping to entice Europeans with offerings like video calling, music downloads
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AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint Nextel, look out! European companies with unfamiliar names to many Americans, now offer much cheaper and more convenient GSM cellular services to US residents traveling abroad.
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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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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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MAIDENHEAD, United KingdomâT-Mobile International said it has deployed a trial of Flarion Technologiesâ FLASH-OFDM system for its mobile broadband services in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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The European company Airbus and a Geneva-based information technology firm, SITA, said they had set up a joint venture to make mobile telephone services available for passengers during flights.
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European regulators have cleared the use of mobile phones and BlackBerry devices by airline passengers during flights.
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European aero-producer Airbus has reported progress on plans that would allow passengers to use mobile phones during air travel, beginning in 2006.
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By Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press  HELSINKI, Finland -- Finnair will enable passengers to send mobile text messages and e-mails on flights to the Far East starting next month.
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PARIS Bouygues Telecom and Vivendi Universal, both of France, began a new mobile phone service Wednesday in an attempt to bolster their market share and increase revenue from young customers.
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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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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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Vodafone Group PLC launched high-speed Internet services for mobile phones across much of Europe on Wednesday, ending a wait of several years since the world's biggest cell phone company spent billions for new wireless licenses at the height of the technology bubble.