In-Cabin Mobile Phone Use Test Flight

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: July 15, 2004 11:16:10 PM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipient:;
Subject: In-Cabin Mobile Phone Use Test Flight


     American Airlines and QUALCOMM Complete Test Flight to Evaluate
     In-Cabin Mobile Phone Use
     - Jul 15, 2004 04:01 PM (PR Newswire)


- Proof-of-Concept Event Highlights Safe and Reliable Mobile Phone 
Technology
Using CDMA on a Commercial Aircraft -


FORT WORTH, Texas and SAN DIEGO, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- QUALCOMM
Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division
Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, and American 
Airlines, the
world's largest carrier, today successfully demonstrated in-cabin voice
communications using commercially available CDMA mobile phones on a 
commercial
American Airlines aircraft.  Through the use of an in-cabin 
third-generation
(3G) "picocell" network, passengers on the test flight were able to 
place and
receive calls as if they were on the ground.

The proof-of-concept demonstration flight originated out of the
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.  During the approximate 
two-hour
flight, passengers were able to place and receive phone calls and text
messages on their mobile phones.  Passengers included members of the 
media and
government representatives.


A small in-cabin CDMA cellular base station on the plane, that uses
standard cellular communications, was connected to the worldwide 
terrestrial
phone network by an air-to-ground Globalstar satellite link.


The information gathered during this proof-of-concept demonstration 
flight
will be used to further research into the quality, convenience and 
safety of
communications with personal CDMA mobile phones carried by passengers 
on a
commercial aircraft.

...

     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=42525106

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