Skift Asks: Do You Want Phone Calls and Texts on Flights?
Skift Take
Maybe the country is more ready for in-flight calls -- or just doesn't care one way or the other -- than the protests would have you believe.
Last week the FCC caused a huge wave of annoyance amongst airline flyers in U.S., when the agency in charge of regulating cellphone use on the ground and in the air announced that it was considering opening up wireless access on flights, permitting wider use of mobile phones through both text messages and calls.
Rules against making cellphone calls during airline flights are “outdated and restrictive" the brand-new FCC chairman Tom Wheeler said. If accepted, the new proposal would lift the FCC’s 1991 ban on in-flight calls and data usage afte
