1 edit | delta banned inflight voip delta says they will ban inflight voip on their wi-fi.
i say ban cell phone use and voip services.
Younger Fliers will feel differently when they become frequent fliers.
Plus who would want to pay the roaming fee for in flight cell servce. Probably be just as expensive if not more expensive than a cruise ship. |
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 GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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| said by HardwareGeek:delta says they will ban inflight voip on their wi-fi. i say ban cell phone use and voip services. Younger Fliers will feel differently when they become frequent fliers. I'm 23, a frequent flyer, and I don't mind cell phones. It's just like anywhere else.... You can use your cell phone on the bus, but there is etiquette that is followed. Personally I have witnessed people, students, following the etiquette on the bus. |
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said by HardwareGeek:Plus who would want to pay the roaming fee for in flight cell servce. Probably be just as expensive if not more expensive than a cruise ship. You have roaming? I have free nationwide roaming... |
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| You have free nationwide roaming on the ground but I am sure it will be different in the air. |
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GbcueAlmost P.E.Premium
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| said by HardwareGeek:You have free nationwide roaming on the ground but I am sure it will be different in the air. True, unless you can pick up a ground cell tower. |
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| Not likely. Even if you could grab a signal, the plane is moving so fast that you'd be switching cell sites faster than you could register on them. Also, at least with CDMA, your phone would be able to "see" too many sites at once and wouldn't be able to use them because of all the interference from other sites. |
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said by Gbcue:said by HardwareGeek:delta says they will ban inflight voip on their wi-fi. i say ban cell phone use and voip services. Younger Fliers will feel differently when they become frequent fliers. I'm 23, a frequent flyer, and I don't mind cell phones. It's just like anywhere else.... You can use your cell phone on the bus, but there is etiquette that is followed. Personally I have witnessed people, students, following the etiquette on the bus. and if someone doesn't follow that etiquette, you hope they'll leave in the next couple minutes, or you change seats.
Good luck doing that on a 3hr flight at 32,000 feet.
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I would suggest a cell phone zone outboard of the engine on the wing. |
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said by HardwareGeek:delta says they will ban inflight voip on their wi-fi. Different reasoning.
VOIP uses bandwidth provided by the ISP (in a round about way, this would be Delta.) Cell phones use airtime provided by the company you signed up for. Both are charged in 2 different ways. |
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