FCC kills plans to allow in-flight phone calls to either your great relief or mild disappointment – Android Police

There are plenty of ways to pass time on a plane during long flights, but making phone calls or using personal data plans aren’t going to be one of them. Today, the Federal Communications Commission canceled plans to set rules that could have allowed in-flight voice and data services via passengers’ personal phones — it only took seven years of hearing arguments from both sides.
There’s no one reason for the course reversal, but FCC documents state that no reasonable solution could be found that…

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