Greedy Air NZ to allow calls, texts on new plane

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#436423 7-Feb-2011 18:00

A while ago, (ok maybe almost a decade), Vodafone had this thing where if you were on prepaid, and you ran out of credit, you could still text and use gprs for a few hours until the system kicked in.

Does this apply now?

If so, I might just book a flight, swap my sim for a prepaid one with $20 on it and download until it stops. I might get 1 GB if i'm lucky.

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#436424 7-Feb-2011 18:01

Would be the most fun spending 20K I have ever had.

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#436427 7-Feb-2011 18:07

jjnz1: A while ago, (ok maybe almost a decade), Vodafone had this thing where if you were on prepaid, and you ran out of credit, you could still text and use gprs for a few hours until the system kicked in.

Does this apply now?

If so, I might just book a flight, swap my sim for a prepaid one with $20 on it and download until it stops. I might get 1 GB if i'm lucky.

Those days are long gone

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#436429 7-Feb-2011 18:09

Beccara: We already have to put up with those people in other modes of transport, Yes the long haul thing add's something to the mix but again why should the ignorant few that will do that rubbish stop my ability to conduct peaceful business on my laptop with a data link rather than be dead weight to my employer whilst I'm in flight.

It certainly makes my case for flights around places alot easier if I'm able to show I can work during the flights

I'm not against mobile data in planes. Only voice calls.

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#436432 7-Feb-2011 18:16

I guess you could cull the idiot's out by doing data only, the tech savey one's will try VOIP (God, that would be horrible on a sat link)

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#436433 7-Feb-2011 18:19

You would not want Windows updates turned on to download automatically

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#436435 7-Feb-2011 18:25

I hope data gets cheaper. I am still surprised to see that almost all major international flight operators do not offer wifi. It's 2011. I don't mind paying $20 for the entire flight. I don't care if it's only 1GB or even 500MB. Just give me wifi on an international flight.

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#436441 7-Feb-2011 18:42

For those of you who think it is expensive please call your neighborhood satellite operator and get a quote for real time two way data. There is no dsl line available at 35,000 feet.

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#436444 7-Feb-2011 18:52

Last time I looked BGAN prices were about $3-7usd per MB

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#436453 7-Feb-2011 18:57

Could always take a jammer on the plane ;)

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#436454 7-Feb-2011 18:58

Now thats likely to get you put on a black list :P If not arrested

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#436460 7-Feb-2011 19:04

nate:
johnr: satellites are cheap to get into space let alone keeping them going

$20/Mb in data?! Maybe you should take a paycut to help bring this rate down

From $9.75 an hour to what?

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#436466 7-Feb-2011 19:07

Didn't you hear John? The minimum wage went up today!

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#436475 7-Feb-2011 19:13

Beccara: Now thats likely to get you put on a black list :P If not arrested

Actually yeah, the one that "a friend" has looks more like a remote for something terrorist related with its antennas and just one button and looking like the case came off the shelf from a cheap project box case shop ;)

Whats to stop people connecting to the ground based networks if they are in a window seat? Last time I flew there was quite a few occasions when I got some XT signal while flying.

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#436476 7-Feb-2011 19:14

hairy1: Didn't you hear John? The minimum wage went up today!

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