{"id":6217,"date":"2008-01-04T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/using-phones-inflight.html"},"modified":"2008-01-04T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T10:29:06","slug":"using-phones-inflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/using-phones-inflight.html","title":{"rendered":"Using Phones in-Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been much <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/tag\/Jetblue\">coverage <\/a>of airline broadband connections. Soon we will all be able to talk on our cell phones while in flight. Well really I made that last part up&#8230; But I do think there are many times when I would like to be able to pick up the phone and communicate with other people.<\/p>\n<p>Ina&nbsp; few weeks I will in fact be flying to <a href=\"www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO <\/a>and it looks like at least for one leg of the trip on will be on JetBlue&#8230; I am super-excited to try the new in-flight broadband connection. I really can&#8217;t wait. I will be sure to let you know how it goes and I will certainly blog live from the flight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/russell-shaw-small.jpg\" \/>I have to thank Russell Shaw who not only will be at the show but moreover wrote a voluminous <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/ip-telephony\/?p=2996\">entry <\/a>on his ZDnet blog regarding cellphone use on airplanes. What is amazing to me is the few airline crashers and incidents which have been potentially linked to cellphone use.<\/p>\n<p>The blog mentions the fact that about half of cellphones are on in-flight today and they obviously don&#8217;t cause many problems. I would say the number is closer to one quarter but either way it equates to millions and millions of on phones.<\/p>\n<p>So in summary, I think I am warming to the trend of working while connected and talking while in flight. I will get my first taste of this in a few weeks and if any of you are traveling to the show on an Internet equipped flight, I would love to hear about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been much coverage of airline broadband connections. Soon we will all be able to talk on our cell phones while in flight. Well really I made that last part up&#8230; But I do think there are many times when I would like to be able to pick up the phone and communicate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,160,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}