Is it possible to use the smartphone in flight?

To provide this in-flight service, airlines will have to install a picocell on the aircraft that will connect the in-flight network to the ground network via satellite.

As mentioned above, the European Commission is working on reserving a number of frequencies to be used for this type of communication.

This major change was made public in a statement by Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, in which he remarked that, with today’s ultra-fast and high-capacity connection possibilities, we can no longer consider the sky as the limit.

The next step is to create an organised system that avoids cost overruns for users, as on long flights, telephone networks from different countries will be used.

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