Comments on: Qantas customers to get text trial, thankfully no voice calls http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/04/qantas_customers_to_get_text_trial_thankfully_no_voice_calls.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Julian Hucker http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/04/qantas_customers_to_get_text_trial_thankfully_no_voice_calls.html/comment-page-1#comment-42714 Julian Hucker Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:10:55 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/04/qantas_customers_to_get_text_trial_thankfully_no_voice_calls.html#comment-42714 You're right - if phones on planes really did interfere with the instrumentation they'd be banned -although apparently they do have an impact on the infrastructure on the ground. I've been trying to get a couple of airlines to text their customers when they get on the plane to tell to switch their phone off. If the message expiry is less than the duration of the flight and they HAVE switched off, the passenger will never get the message. And if they've left their phone on, they'll be embarassed into switching it off. You’re right – if phones on planes really did interfere with the instrumentation they’d be banned -although apparently they do have an impact on the infrastructure on the ground.

I’ve been trying to get a couple of airlines to text their customers when they get on the plane to tell to switch their phone off. If the message expiry is less than the duration of the flight and they HAVE switched off, the passenger will never get the message. And if they’ve left their phone on, they’ll be embarassed into switching it off.

]]> By: steve procter http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/04/qantas_customers_to_get_text_trial_thankfully_no_voice_calls.html/comment-page-1#comment-42404 steve procter Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:54:36 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/04/qantas_customers_to_get_text_trial_thankfully_no_voice_calls.html#comment-42404 Personally I like to turn off from work once in a while and flights are great for eating a pile of plastic food, watching a naff film and that same bloody episode of Extras that I've now seen 12 times, oh and chatting to the nice girly next to me...which with my luck is usually a dullard bloke and his even more boring wife who want to tell me the whole damn experience of how they got their holiday for £20 less than everyone else by sitting up at 3am and watching teletext pages scroll by...oh god no, now he's telling me about last years holiday and how the food was "all foreign"... ...actually where is my phone, I've suddenly realised the office can't cope without me... steve Personally I like to turn off from work once in a while and flights are great for eating a pile of plastic food, watching a naff film and that same bloody episode of Extras that I’ve now seen 12 times, oh and chatting to the nice girly next to me…which with my luck is usually a dullard bloke and his even more boring wife who want to tell me the whole damn experience of how they got their holiday for £20 less than everyone else by sitting up at 3am and watching teletext pages scroll by…oh god no, now he’s telling me about last years holiday and how the food was “all foreign”…

…actually where is my phone, I’ve suddenly realised the office can’t cope without me…

steve

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