As long as your Blackberry radio is off you can still use it. Cell phones definetly a no no. But I don't know what aircraft communications talk at 900,1800 or 1900?
Anybody have any idea on what frequencies an airplane uses? I know that they use the 130-175mhz to talk to towers. Raj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John M Stec Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] RE: Anyone heading to Germany next month? In flight Wi-Fi is ok, but cell phones and Blackberries will make the plane unsafe. oh, maybe cell phones/blackberries would be ok if the Airlines could charge you by the minute? That would make them safe, no doubt. ORIGINAL MESSAGE ----------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:42:11 -0800 From: Tim Pozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Anyone heading to Germany next month? http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1570531 January 15, 2003 Lufthansa and Cisco Put Wi-Fi in the Plane By Eric Griffith At last, the days of your laptop being nothing more than a method of playing Minesweeper on airline flights may be coming to an end. Deutsche Lufthansa AG is currently doing passenger trials of in-flight Wi-Fi- and Ethernet-based access to the Internet. Partnered with Boeing Company (Quote, Company Info) and Cisco Systems (Quote, Company Info), the Lufthansa flight -- part of a project called FlyNet -- will travel from Frankfurt, Germany to Washington D.C and back for the next three months. The plane in use is a Boeing 747-400 equipped with Connexion By Boeing, a system for providing high-speed, real-time data services via satellite. The network from Cisco includes five Cisco Aironet 350 Access Points, a Cisco 3640 Router, and nine digital switches for the hardwired Ethernet connections found in some seats in First Class and Business Class. The wireless, obviously, reaches everyone on the plane. The data throughput for users on the plan is about 3 Megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and 128Kbps for uploads. The service is initially free to any one on the Germany to US flights; Jonathan Hindle, strategic technology manager for the World Wide Mobile Team at Cisco, says that this trial is, in part, about finding out what people will pay for the service. [...] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/10/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/10/2003 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
