19th April, 2008, 10:46 AM
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| Europe Begins Testing In-Flight Use of Cellphones
From NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/te...gy&oref=slogin Quote:
PARIS — François Germain, a BP executive, was one of the first passengers to put Air France’s pilot program allowing cellphone calls in flight to the test. The results last week were not quite as he hoped.
From Seat 14C, Mr. Germain punched in the number on his cellphone to his assistant in Paris and waited a few moments for the signal to bounce from a satellite in space to a receiver on the ground 39,000 feet below. “I’m not hearing you very well,” the assistant yelled when he got through. “It sounds like I’m talking to a small robot.”
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