AeroMobile Says It's Ready to Provide Inflight Mobile Phone Service

AeroMobile demonstrated "live" mobile voice, text and data communications services at the recent Aircraft Interiors Expo 2007 in Hamburg, and displayed its production standard aircraft equipment.

Dave Poltorak, AeroMobile's president, said, "These demonstrations and displays prove AeroMobile's systems and services are complete and fully operational."  He was referring to how AeroMobile would handle and bill passengers for any communications services they would use inflight.

AeroMobile has also been aggressively seeking regulatory approvals.  It now has approvals from 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia to allow the service, and has roaming agreements with 121 mobile phone operators around the world, the company says.

Of course, there was the recent decision of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to postpone its approval for such service, in American airspace, but AeroMobile said it wouldn't affect its plans to proceed.

And now Australia says it will permit an evaluation of passenger communications in its airspace, which Qantas will pursue using AeroMobile's system.  04-23-2007.

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