New poll: mobile phones on a plane?
by Volker Weber
Air travel is relatively quiet. On international flights they try to sell you duty free goods, and on budget airlines they try to sell you everything but the bare seat. But mobile phones have to be switched off, so you are basically off the grid for a few hours. This may be changing soon. So here is the question:
Would you like to be able use your mobile phone in flight? Three answers:
- Yes, that would be cool
- No thanks, silence please
- I don't care
Results:
Comments
I want Internet on the flight. And free Wifi on the airport.
And a pony and kite, of course.
Hi,
no cell phones, however I liked the WLAN service they offered for trans-atlantic flights...
re.
Albert
Data and SMS...no voice
no cell phones, please.
Mir reicht schon das dumme Gewäsch in Bussen und Bahnen. Im Flieger kommt dann zu den immer gleichen Sprüchen "Du, wir starten gleich" und "Du, wir sind gelandet" noch ein Chor von "Du, wir fliegen gerade über den Gardasee" dazu. Das muss ich mir nicht geben .
Whilst people might like data and no phones, what’s to then stop people using VOIP services?
Also, no phone but SMS? Which is worse: conversations, or the annoying BEEP BEEP as someone receives their sixtieth text in as many minutes??
- Give them free papers and they will start chatting about latest news!
- Allow to use a phone and they will call home ("Honey, I'm just flighing over the garden"!
- Give them free WiFi and the will use Skype or similar services!
- Give them free beer(s) and they will take a nap...
I'd definitely go for the latter option!!! That's my favorite activity while on plane (No, not drinking beer... :-))
Yeah that's a great idea: mobile phones on planes. I can imagine the night flight from Delhi to Frankfurt. Dudes. Shut up please. Thanx.
Ich halte es wie Ulrich Wickert bei Zoomer.de.
Dem habe ich nichts hinzuzufügen!
The arguement that there should be no voice communication on a plane is the same as we should have no paved roads because someone will drive 150MPH. Cell phone and personal voice communications is not bad, disrepectfull people are bad. Eliminating a tool because some people may abuse it is wrong.
Free wifi would be great, but keep the phones off the plane. Even with skype type services out there with wifi you could easily kill these services. The latency itself would make a call horrible. You could also easily limit the amount of bandwidth someone could use.
data only and no skype-shouldn't be that hard to figure out...!!
No, please.
At least on international flights I don't want additional talking. Especially since evry cell-user thinks, the louder he/ she speaks, the better gets the connection.
I want to sleep.
Shouting at the mobile phone is pretty normal if the speaker is set too low. It's in your brain. Without a phone, if you can't hear the other person well, you must assume they also cannot hear you well. So you speak up. Raise the earpiece volume, and you automatically lower your voice.
@Dwight, you certainly have a good point there.
The problem however is that, even without wanting to disturb, people sitting close to you on a flight and having a conversation after a while start to become a nuisance.
This is particularly true if they sit on the row behind you.
Can you immagine sitting next to Steve Ballmer flying back home after his speech in Budapest or next month after Jobs introduces the iPhone G3 and releases some sales figures? :-)
Adding to the issue of cellphone on airplanes, please also not in restaurants..
Wake up and smell the next century, moaners. People using the phone are not the issue; people making an inapprorpriate noise are. That's what stewardesses are for. I fail to see why people think public transportation systems should remain isolated pockets of telecommunication silence. It just seems so backwards.
I sat in front on two ladies discussing whatever it was they were discussing yesterday during a 4 hr train ride in the ICE without even stopping to take a breath...in the "quiet" section. I was trying to get work done, and the only thing that saved me from insanity was my ability to block out their conversation with headphones and some nice music.
I don't want that on a plane. I would accept a phone booth in a A380, though
