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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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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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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Air France launched a commercial trial of onboard cell phone use, for now allowing only short messaging and e-mail.
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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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LONDON, England -- Eurostar, the high-speed passenger services, is celebrating 10 years of service between Britain, France and Belgium.
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Cell phones and wireless devices pass Airbus's onboard tests with flying colors.
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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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Europeans traveling abroad will be able to send text messages and use mobile Internet services with reduced prices just in time for the summer travel season, thanks to the European Union's chief telecom lawmaker.
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The mobile operator explained it will be the first in Europe to offer HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Services) with download speeds of 3.6Mbps when it launches the service in the Isle of Man next summer.
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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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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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Six-month study will allow passengers to send messages and make calls.
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - European plane maker Airbus SAS said yesterday that it has successfully completed the first in-flight trial of mobile phones and infrastructure equipment based on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM
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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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Europe appears to be fertile ground for new WiMax networks. Spain is the latest country to embrace the emerging high-end broadband wireless technology, following recent deployments in France, Ireland, and the U.K.
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AMSTERDAM: Europe&#39;s second largest mobile carrier T-Mobile said yesterday it had started the continent&#39;s first trial of US-based Flarion&#39;s high-speed wireless internet in the Dutch city of The Hague.