He said this could see many of his "guests" as Virgin Blue calls its passengers, hunched forwards in the Blackberry "prayer" position, scrolling through their in-boxes, or fumbling over the tiny keypad, just like Blackberry addicts world wide, whether in meetings, or trains, or supposedly watching their children play school sports.
PICO-CELL BASES
The key to allowing mobile phones in flight is the installation of miniature or pico-cell base stations inside the cabins, that are much smaller than those used by ground based telephone networks.
These pico-cell units act as a safe signal exchange between the cabin and ground stations, eliminating the risk that passenger operated units might boost their signals to levels that could interfere with aircraft systems as they attempt to turn the metallic skin of the fuselage into a giant send and receive antenna.
MANAGEMENT CHOICE
Dash says how airlines ultimately use the technology that it claims is more flexible and cost effective than the soon to be dead Connexion by Boeing is a matter of individual management choice.
He is spending most of the next 30 days flying above Australia with a handful of technicians and safety inspectors and 144 glowing seat back videos to prove that LiveTV works as advertised and doesn't constitute any unforeseen or unintended safety hazard, although these tests do not address the potential cultural damage from exposure to CNN, which is one of the news show options.
After that Virgin Blue will become the first Asia-Pacific carrier to use an improved version of the LiveTV services offered on the North American flights of JetBlue, Frontier Airlines and WestJet.
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