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Old April 8th, 2008, 02:43 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
John Kulp
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:57 GMT, "Jeff Hacker"
wrote:


"Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry



I think it is time to buy stock in the Bose company (which makes those great
noise canceling headphones).


There are cheaper and just as good ones than Bose.
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Old April 8th, 2008, 03:11 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
AZ Nomad[_3_]
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:57 GMT, Jeff Hacker wrote:

"Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7334372.stm

Mobile phone calls will be allowed on planes flying in European airspace
under new European Commission rules.
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.

Gerry



I think it is time to buy stock in the Bose company (which makes those great
noise canceling headphones).


they're ****. Just a set of $10 headphones with an extra twenty cents worth
of foam on each side. The impressive part about bose company is that they
sell them for hundreds of dollars. There's one born every minute.

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Old April 8th, 2008, 03:49 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
Mxsmanic
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JohnT writes:

In the UK/Europe?


The FAA and FCC have jurisdiction only in the U.S.
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Old April 8th, 2008, 03:50 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
Mxsmanic
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John Kulp writes:

They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why
Continental pulled them all out.


The situation may change dramatically if the system allows incoming calls to
personal cell phones.
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Old April 8th, 2008, 03:51 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
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AZ Nomad writes:

they're ****. Just a set of $10 headphones with an extra twenty cents worth
of foam on each side. The impressive part about bose company is that they
sell them for hundreds of dollars. There's one born every minute.


You're saying that they sell noise-cancelling headphones that don't actually
contain any form of active noise cancellation?
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Old April 8th, 2008, 07:23 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
Roland Perry[_1_]
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In message , at 19:47:56 on Mon, 7
Apr 2008, Gerald Oliver Swift remarked:
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.


What will make me happy is not so much the ability to phone home and say
"I'm going to be an hour late because we've just sat at the end of the
runway waiting for a takeoff slot" but the ability to use my
camera-phone to take pictures out of the window.
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Old April 8th, 2008, 07:42 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
Roland Perry[_1_]
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In message , at 04:51:20 on
Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Mxsmanic remarked:
they're ****. Just a set of $10 headphones with an extra twenty cents worth
of foam on each side. The impressive part about bose company is that they
sell them for hundreds of dollars. There's one born every minute.


You're saying that they sell noise-cancelling headphones that don't actually
contain any form of active noise cancellation?


Active noise cancellation is rubbish too. I bought a set, and while they
did reduce the background "throbbing" noise from the engines slightly,
they don't have any effect on "random" noises like people talking or
announcements (the latter a particular problem on some trains, rather
than planes).
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Old April 8th, 2008, 07:44 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
David Horne, _the_ chancellor[_2_]
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Mxsmanic wrote:

John Kulp writes:

They never used them much in the US domestically either, which is why
Continental pulled them all out.


The situation may change dramatically if the system allows incoming calls to
personal cell phones.


This will still be very expensive.

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Old April 8th, 2008, 07:53 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
Erick T. Barkhuis[_1_]
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Roland Perry:
In message , at 19:47:56 on Mon, 7
Apr 2008, Gerald Oliver Swift remarked:
The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an
altitude of 3,000m or more.


What will make me happy is [...] the ability to use my
camera-phone to take pictures out of the window.


Wouldn't any ol' camera do?
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Old April 8th, 2008, 08:18 AM posted to alt.travel.uk.air,rec.travel.europe
Roland Perry[_1_]
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In message , at 08:53:24
on Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m
remarked:
What will make me happy is [...] the ability to use my
camera-phone to take pictures out of the window.


Wouldn't any ol' camera do?


Travelling by plane is bad enough without carrying an excessive number
of "gadgets", when you have one already.

The airlines seem to have addressed [1] this for Blackberrys, but the
inability to use a phone as a camera or MP3 player is inconvenient.

[1] Variously allowing them, or banning them "even in fight mode". Heigh
ho.
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