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Air France today announced the start of a six-month trial of in-flight mobile phone services on international flights. The tests on Airbus A318 aircraft will use the Mobile OnAir system to support sms, mms and e-mail.

Later tests will support phone calls – but, as the company puts it, the service will be "regulated to maintain passengers' comfort and well-being"… with no clarification on precisely what that might mean…

More here from the AP … more here from MacNN … more here from the::unwired … more here from TravelWeekly … more here from Forbes … more here from InfoWorld … more here from the FT … and the press release is here.

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