Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Virgin atlantic cellphone

  • NEW YORK -- The phrase Can you hear me now has entered the jet age. Passengers on certain Virgin Atlantic flights are now able to use their cell phones to make and receive phone calls at 35,000 feet, the airline announced Tuesday.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • using European carrier O2 and Vodafone or T-Mobile from the U.S. Virgin Atlantic is part of the Virgin group of companies, which includes Virgin Mobile, a major cell phone company.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Virgin Atlantic announced Tuesday the airline will offer cellphone service during flights. The company said it would be the first British airline to provide the service at 35,000 feet.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • The phrase Can you hear me now has entered the jet age. Passengers on certain Virgin Atlantic flights are now able to use their cellphones to make and receive phone calls at 35,000 feet, the airline announced Tuesday.
  • (AP - msnbc.com)
  • You always hear your pilot saying turn off your cellphones, but passengers on one airline wont have to. Virgin Atlantic is now offering cellphone service on flights from New York to London.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • Also, at the moment, cell phone calls are only allowed on Virgin Atlantics Airbus A330, which flies between London and New York, but the airline is expected to expand this freedom of communication to more of its fleet by the end of the year.
  • (Burlington County Times)
  • Big news for international travelers: The Daily Mail is reporting that Virgin Atlantic became the first British airline to permit calls on board flights today.
  • (Travel Agent)
  • In fact, we can only think of one situation where making it possible to place cell phone calls would be a bad thing – on an airplane. Nevertheless, Virgin Atlantic is forging ahead with plans to do exactly that on a number of its flights by the end of 2012.
  • (SlashGear)
  • Now Virgin Atlantic has announced it will allow passengers in midair to talk on their cell phones. Only six people at a time will be able to use the service, and there is no information on how much it will cost.
  • (Albany Times Union (blog))
  • Sponsored links, if any, appear in green. As if the list of nuisances and pains when flying commercial wasnt already long enough, you can now add people gabbing on their cellphones to it.
  • (MobileBurn)

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