Air France Will Trial OnAir Passenger Mobile Phone Use

Air France will take delivery of an A318 fitted with OnAir equipment in early 2007 that will enable the use of passenger mobile phones inflight.  The airline will then use the aircraft to conduct a six month commercial trial using the new service on short-haul flights within Europe and to and from North Africa.

The OnAir service will allow Air France passengers to use their own GSM (global system for mobile communications) phones and GPRS (general packet radio service)-enabled devices such as the Blackberry or Treo, to make and receive voice calls or to send and receive SMS (short message service) communications, or emails during the flight, without inferring with critical aircraft systems.  04-08-2006.

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