Mobile phone calls in the air!!!

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Ryanair, the cheapest, bestest, lucky if you have seatbelts let alone leg room airline, is now raising the bar and allowing (for a trial period) passengers to use their mobile phones in the air!!!!! At about £3 a min airtime (more expensive the more air you have around you i suppose) it seems to be something you could expect on every airline in the future.

And sending a normally very free e-mail that i like to call free-mail will now set you back between £1 and £2 which means i might have to rename it pound-mail (sigh). The technology is so advanced that a whopping six people can use their phones all at one time!! Gosh i hope i'm not waiting for my call behind a stutterer.
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10 comments // Mobile phone calls in the air!!!

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    I really don't like the idea of people using their phones on a plane. Not for safety reasons, just cos it's one of the only places where you don't have to listen to the constant drone of people screaming into their phones.

    mattbrawn
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    hobojohn
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    This is bad very bad and it makes me sad.

    bubbeemonkey
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    Do Ryanair somehow get a share of the profit on this? Because I can't see them doing something that might actually make peoples' travelling easier if there isn't money in it for them.

    ClareW
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    I've gotten phonecalls from people in the air before. I don't know how they didn't get caught though.

    uponrooftops
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    Another reason not to fly Ryanair.
    I would love phones to be banned from trains!

    DonkeyPong
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    No. This is the worst news ever. The air was the one place you didn't have to deal with people yapping away

    nazbags
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    Can't stop it, but it should be limited to texting. Probably not!

    nursediesel
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    I wonder how this actually works, I've left my phone on accidentally two or three times and was able to receive calls while in the air, and the planes I was on were decades old and definitely not equipped with any sort of cell phone equipment. I must have been connecting to the towers on the ground.

    wehat
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