Gone are the time when you needed to be restricted due to the flight mode of your mobiles on the plane. All thanks to GOGO which has figured out a way to let passengers make calls and texts from their mobiles while in flight.
Gogo GTO (ground to orbit), has unveiled its latest in-flight technology, allowing smartphone users to make phone calls and send text messages, routed to the smartphone’s service provider via the plane’s Wi-Fi system from 30,000 feet as if they were on the ground. The aircraft connectivity company on Friday touted its Text & Talk technology to CNET aboard a private jet, departing from and returning to New Jersey’s Newark International Airport.
“Gogo Text & Talk is just one more way Gogo is keeping airline passengers connected to their lives on the ground,” said Ash ElDifrawi, Gogo’s chief marketing officer. “While we see this as more of a text messaging product for commercial airlines in the United States, the phone functionality is something that some international air carriers and our business aviation customers are asking for.”
“The great part about this technology is that it doesn’t require us to install anything new to an aircraft and we can bundle it with or without connectivity,” said ElDifrawi.
Gogo has inked agreements with 200-plus carriers worldwide, which means you’ll be able to use your own phone number in the air and simply “roam” onto Gogo’s WiFi network.
Though the official roll out of GOGO is uncertain.
Gogo’s free Text & Talk is an app available for iOS and Android which is reuired to be downloaded before you take off.
New rules by the Federal Aviation Administration now allow consumers to use electronic devices at all points during a flight, from takeoff through landing, subject to individual airline rules.
Brad Jaehn, Gogo’s vice president, told CNET that the service will launch on commercial flights in the first quarter of 2014, with the rest of this year spent on further development and testing.
Pricing has yet to be announced. “We’re still working out the business model,” Jaehn said.
The company has more than 6,000 Gogo-equipped aircraft, from American Airlines, Delta, United, and Virgin America.
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Gogo GTO (ground to orbit), has unveiled its latest in-flight technology, allowing smartphone users to make phone calls and send text messages, routed to the smartphone’s service provider via the plane’s Wi-Fi system from 30,000 feet as if they were on the ground. The aircraft connectivity company on Friday touted its Text & Talk technology to CNET aboard a private jet, departing from and returning to New Jersey’s Newark International Airport.
“Gogo Text & Talk is just one more way Gogo is keeping airline passengers connected to their lives on the ground,” said Ash ElDifrawi, Gogo’s chief marketing officer. “While we see this as more of a text messaging product for commercial airlines in the United States, the phone functionality is something that some international air carriers and our business aviation customers are asking for.”“The great part about this technology is that it doesn’t require us to install anything new to an aircraft and we can bundle it with or without connectivity,” said ElDifrawi.
Gogo has inked agreements with 200-plus carriers worldwide, which means you’ll be able to use your own phone number in the air and simply “roam” onto Gogo’s WiFi network.
Though the official roll out of GOGO is uncertain.
Gogo’s free Text & Talk is an app available for iOS and Android which is reuired to be downloaded before you take off.
New rules by the Federal Aviation Administration now allow consumers to use electronic devices at all points during a flight, from takeoff through landing, subject to individual airline rules.
Brad Jaehn, Gogo’s vice president, told CNET that the service will launch on commercial flights in the first quarter of 2014, with the rest of this year spent on further development and testing.
Pricing has yet to be announced. “We’re still working out the business model,” Jaehn said.
The company has more than 6,000 Gogo-equipped aircraft, from American Airlines, Delta, United, and Virgin America.
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