Shenzhen (CNS) -- China now owns the world's most developed flight-to-ground Internet communication system, allowing Internet surfing, video downloading, live TV news programs, mobile phone text messaging, chatting on QQ and tweeting on Weibo, all of which it expects to add to its customer services in the second quarter of 2012.
The breakthrough was jointly achieved through the Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Beijing Weibang Yuanhang Wireless Technology Co., Ltd, and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., and announced at a forum on the informationalization of Chinese civil aviation held in Shenzhen on Wednesday.
Officials from the Civil Aviation Administration of China trying out the final prototype of the sevice sent and received clear audio and video messages.
The system will help more than 300 million passengers every year communicate and entertain themsleves during their flights. By then, that announcement requiring you to switch off your mobile devices as the plane taxis to the runway will be history, and information devices can be used as they are in normal circumstances.
