{"id":410304,"date":"2010-03-09T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/ac6615722c0e7f39af84f062d4440228"},"modified":"2010-03-09T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:45:00","slug":"article-cell-phones-to-be-allowed-in-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/410304","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Cell phones to be allowed in planes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/3\/96140-gI_0_SCAPwhite.jpg\" alt=\"Asiq WAP\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite things about air travel?&nbsp; Besides listening to Lionel Richie&#8217;s <em>You Are<\/em> and hearing the gentle hum of the engines, it&#8217;s fact that there&#8217;s absolutely no cell phones allowed.&nbsp; Needless to say, it&#8217;s very peaceful &#8211; and minus Wi-Fi, it&#8217;s the only place where I can&#8217;t be found for a few hours.&nbsp; Should ASiQ&#8217;s technology take off (no pun intended), we could see a change in the way we use our devices while in the air.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The access point eliminates the need for a picocell on board the aircraft, utilizing the satellite connection instead.&nbsp; The company&#8217;s SafeCell technology, combined with the Bluetooth Access Point, allows for extremely small file sizes, along with the possibility to transmit up to 3 Mbps.&nbsp; With a price of approximately $10,000 per airplane, ASiQ&#8217;s Bluetooth Access Point would allow passengers to utilize cellular services (SMS, MMS, voice messaging, and e-mail) while in-flight.&nbsp; Two access points are needed to cover a narrow body aircraft, and the technology supports up to 192 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about this?&nbsp; Let me rephrase &#8211; frequent flyers, how do you feel about this?&nbsp; One more step towards full phone use on a plane, or a nice step towards communication while traveling?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonescoop.com\/news\/item.php?n=5613\" >PhoneScoop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2010\/03\/prweb3685614.htm\" >PRWeb<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprint.com\/4G\"><em><br \/>Powered by Sprint 4G<br \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/95Uey-fxQQja8i-CFsBMvwiJS10\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/95Uey-fxQQja8i-CFsBMvwiJS10\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/95Uey-fxQQja8i-CFsBMvwiJS10\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/95Uey-fxQQja8i-CFsBMvwiJS10\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/b9xi51h-Blc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about air travel?&nbsp; Besides listening to Lionel Richie&#8217;s You Are and hearing the gentle hum of the engines, it&#8217;s fact that there&#8217;s absolutely no cell phones allowed.&nbsp; Needless to say, it&#8217;s very peaceful &#8211; and minus Wi-Fi, it&#8217;s the only place where I can&#8217;t be found for a few hours.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}