Qantas bringing in-flight SMS and email to all AU domestic flights
By Nilay Patel 
posted Mar 20th 2008 8:09PM
posted Mar 20th 2008 8:09PM
[Thanks, Chris]
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I've been waiting to find out when I get that 25.000.000 million dollars USD$ from Mr. Ogada.
how long until people start texting their friends two rows up? "so, whatcha doin"
I hope that they NEVER EVER bring in flight voice service to fruition, I sincerely do. I would be very happy with in flight SMS / MMS though.
I already have to deal with a 20 minute bus ride (public transit fails becuase it smells like pee and sadness) home filled to the BRIM with yappy teens and incosiderate clods on their mobiles, I can't imagine being boxed in at 40,000 feet with those same people for 4 hours on my flights from Chicago to Los Angeles. Mark my words, it will be the begining of the new road rage.
"Man loses control and beats midwestern woman to death with serving tray after enduring 3 hours of conversation about her show dogs eating / sleeping / fecal activites"
You, sir, are a winner!
Maybe there should be a "ten minute" limit per call and it will "recover" over time.
Did not understand? Okay...
I talk ten minutes, then I wait a few hours and talk again. This way, calls will ONLY be used for important details only and infinite texts to fill void.
+1 to you, since I don't like somebody talking long crap next to me for hours.
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Translation:
Saad Rabia (Morse Code): SOS
eggofthewaffle (Binary): R U HERE
+1's to both of you. I was just bored. :)
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ugh. Sorry for the double post.
Tokyo_suicide, nice hex for: "I for one welcome our texting, emailing, flying, kangaroo overlords."
I want internet on flights. I used Boeing Connexion, it was great .. but it sucks that they discontinued it. I guess it was too expensive a service to provide.
In flight connectivity (albeit not via phones) is getting off the ground sooner than alluded to in this post, by American Airlines' transcontinental service...
http://www.aa.com/content/amrcorp/pressReleases/2008_01/22_aircell.jhtml
just as long as people have there phone silenced/on vibrate
cause every one knows one person who needs to be hit with a hammer cause they have some loud ringer that goes off every text message
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First it was the Black box (which isn't actually black) and now in-flight sms, God we're good down here.
Dear Engadget,
Do some research buddy. You say they're bringing the service to Boeing 767's and Airbus A330's. Please tell me why you then decided to use a photo of a Boeing 747???
Qatar Airways do have in-flight email and sms on certain airplanes for a while already, I tried out the emails in August last year on the A330-300 between Doha and Narita - it costed about $1.9 each (iirc, also for receiving them... but really not sure anymore) and the length was quite limited - then again, the only way of typing was by selecting the letters on the screen via arrow keys on the remote... kind of a hassle. Also sucked that your neighbor could read it all while you wrote it, if he/she wanted to.
Nevertheless, better to be able to send mail than not :)
WTF is wrong with that plane's engines?
I will post the bail and hire a lawyer for the first person charged with air rage for tossing an inconsiderate cellphone jerk - man, woman, or child - out of a plane at 30,000 feet.
it looks like its jumping
Two words.
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