Air France launches in-flight cell phone trial
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InfoWorld - Air France launched a commercial trial of an onboard cell phone service, but in a limited fashion that avoids a controversial aspect.
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Pour la convenance, naturellement Air France and KLM have launched a mobile phone check-in service using SMS for confirmation.â¦
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U.S. airline travelers may be able  to use their mobile telephones as well as get high-speed  Internet service while in the air under plans launched by U.S.  communications regulators on Wednesday.
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SKYTEAM, the airline alliance launched and fostered by Air France, is about to claim three new member carriers and access to 25 per cent of the world&#39;s air routes.
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile International AG today confirmed it is carrying out trials of Flarion Technologiesâ Flash OFDM equipment in European air space.
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By John Gillie, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 21--Sea-Tac Airport added its fourth nonstop route to a European city Tuesday with the announcement that Air France will begin service from Sea-Tac to Paris beginning June 11.
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Nokia Oyj, the world&#39;s biggest maker of mobile phones, and Royal Philips Electronics NV, Europe&#39;s third-largest semiconductor maker, will next year test a system in Germany allowing people to pay for bus fares using handsets.
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The successful Airbus tests involved communications to and from several different types of GSM mobile phones onboard to mobile and fixed telephones on the ground, and to another mobile phone on the plane.
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European aircraft manufacturer Airbus SAS plans to include in its new Superjumbo A380 planes an optional voice and data system that can allow passengers to use their mobile devices in flight. The service, including onboard mobile telephony and Internet access for passengers, will be offered through the OnAir joint venture to airline companies purchasing the A380. The system could be fitted on other models from Airbus as well as on planes from U.S. rival Boeing. The service should become commercially available in 2006, Airbus and OnAir said.
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Ziff Davis - Airbus makes it possible to make in-flight cell phone calls. Is it a real technology advancement, or does it work like my anti-lion powder?
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The US Federal Communications Commission has approved a plan to allow airlines to offer in-flight wireless data service, although it may be some time before such service becomes commercially available.
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In France, 12 people have gone on trial for running a phone-tapping operation used by the late President Francois Mitterrand to monitor his opponents.
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Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost airline, might introduce in-flight gaming.
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AMSTERDAM T-Mobile, Europe&#39;s second largest mobile carrier, said on Wednesday that it had started the Continent&#39;s first trial of a high-speed wireless Internet service that uses Flash OFDM technology.
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THE first public trial of third-generation or 3G mobile phones will start in Singapore tomorrow, ahead of a nationwide rollout due by year&#39;s end.
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Airline travel has always been a welcome refuge from the incessant chatter of cellphone users, so it is sobering to hear that regulators are thinking of allowing the use of cellphones up in the friendly skies.
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Shenzhen Airlines said Monday passengers will soon be able to use their mobile phones and connect to the Internet during flights.