Cellphone Use On Planes Coming Soon?

s31523 writes "A while back it was reported that cell phone use was given the OK on Emirate airlines. The BBC is now reporting European agencies back the use of cell phones in air. Plans have been developed to introduce technology that allow cell phone use on planes without any risk of interference. A spokesman for the UK regulator Ofcom said there were still many stages to pass through before final approval was given to the roll out of the plans, but the regulator said that the technology could be implemented next year."

Boxed SOAP response.

[Argon Sloth]

Eagerly awaiting the Motorola Snake and all the jokes that come with it.

The newest accessary

[dreadlord76]

In related news, Boeing and Airbus both announced the immediate availability of "Cone Of Silence" option on all airplanes.

Re:Let me be the first to say

[Anonymous Coward]

"You'll never guess where I'm calling from!"

Interference?

[Ydna]

Without interference, eh? Yet another annoyance to deal with while flying: listening to some yammerhead yacking into their phone for the whole flight. I'll show you interference. I'm gonna yank that phone out of your hand and flush it down the toilet. Or tell the crew that the passenger next to me is holding some electrical device next to their head and it has wires sticking out of it and strange lights flashing. And it might be ticking!

Re:The newest accessary

[pushing-robot]

Strange, I thought that was a Cingular/AT&T feature.

Re:Cell phone free flights please

[jamesh]

How about they designate an area where you are allowed to talk on your phone. I suggest on the wing, or on the ground.

In terms of coming down on one side or the other, if the airline gets a share of the phone revenue, I'll give you one guess as to which side they'll come down on...

What's really unfair though, is that if you bring a cell phone jammer onto an airoplane, _you_ would be the one to go to jail!

Re:Compromise with text

[QuickFox]

My cellphone can be set to emit horribly shrill bleeps at every single keypress. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re:more airplane homicides

[Bazman]

Instead of killing them be a bit more creative. Get your phone out and go 'Michael? Hi! Mike! How's Mrs Hayden?, Do me a favour? Pull up the passenger manifest for AA96 and make the guy in 5E disappear will you? Great! Golf tomorrow? Sure! Bye!"

It'll be one of those low-numbered rows since only people in First and Business class will be able to afford to yak away for a whole long flight. Since you'll be in that class too, don't kill them yourself, get one of your staff to do it.

If you really are in Sardine class and have someone talk all the time he's either very rich, in which case make him change his will and then kill him, or he's not really talking to anyone and just wants you to think he's rich and popular. I don't have a cellphone, I think they don't really work, people just clamp them to their heads and pretend they have friends.

Re:Compromise with text

[mdwh2]

Many long-distance trains in the UK have a "quiet coach" where they ask people not to use mobile phones, personal stereos, children etc.

This is a good idea, though I was annoyed one time when I reserved seats, and they put us in the quiet coach without asking. Everytime someone made a quiet phone call, this guy came over to complain at them, saying "Excuse me, when I want to make a phone call, I go to the end of the carriage". I guess it's nice that he wanted to uphold the rules, but I was more disturbed by that than the phone calls - I felt like saying to him "Excuse me, when I want to complain to someone, I go to the end of the carriage"...

YES! flying is not annoying enough yet

[peter303]

Airlines have found they not reached the limits of annoying passengers yet. Hobbit-size seats, stuffy air, trip-long fasting, long bathroom lines were not enough. Bring on the cell phones!

You all underestimate the inanity of most calls

[wsanders]

Typical loud mouthed moron on BART (SF Bay Area subway):

LMM: "WHERE YOU AT?"

LMM: "I'M ON BART"

LMM: "BART!"

LMM: "I'M ON BART!"

LMM: "YES .. NO ..."

LMM: "I'M ON BART!"

[Train goes in to tunnel]

LMM: "HELLO?"

LMM: "HELLO?"

LMM: "HELLO?"

[Repeat N times directly proportional to loudness and stupidness of conversation]