EU moves to towards allowing in-flight mobile calls

The European commission plans to announce rules to let airlines offer midair mobile phone calls to passengers across the EU, reports the IHT.

Brussels argues that this would remove a major obstacle for companies that want to sell the service.

The paper says that with the new regulations, to be released today, the commission would unify cellular licensing requirements and technical standards to cover mobile phones as they cross multiple boundaries in the air.

That, it reports, is likely to prompt a scramble among leading airlines to give their passengers access to in-flight calls on their own phones.

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