US Behind on In-Flight Mobile Use - MarketingVOX
The Federal Communications Commission prohibits in-flight mobile phone use, in great part because of worries about interference with aircraft navigation equipment. Across a number of foreign airlines, however, those issues have been-resolved, for example by routing mobile signals via satellite to their proper points on land. Users with standard international roaming service can thus make or receive calls or texts as normal.
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