EU to harmonize takeoff of in-flight mobile calls
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The EU executive will harmonize a pan-European framework for mobile communications on aircraft so passengers can make and receive calls, text messages and use email with their own mobile phone, a Commission source said. The aim is to provide a regulatory “one-stop shop” and avoid a patchwork of approaches emerging as in-flight calls using personal mobile phones start to take off, the source added.
There are no plans to cap the price of in-flight calls but Reding is set to say she will keep a close eye on how the market develops, the source said. Her measures will harmonize and simplify the technical requirements for using mobile phones and the way EU states will grant national licenses to airlines.
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