Votes on in-flight cell-phone service
More than 2800 people have voted, so far, in the survey about in-flight cell-phone service that accompanies one of my recent Well-Mannered Traveler columns on MSNBC.
The results? 64% say “In-flight text and e-mail service is great, but please no phone calls!”
So I’m not that surprised at the results of a recent Harris survey conducted by Yahoo! on the same subject:
74% of the 2,000 consumers polled for that survey say “mobile phone usage on airplanes should be restricted to features that do not require talking.”
But never say never: The survey showed that “If usage of mobile phones was allowed while in-flight, more than two out of three (69 percent) consumers agreed that there should be a designated area of an airplane for passengers who want to talk on their mobile phones.”
For more numbers and details see the full Yahoo release.
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