LONDON-Virgin Atlantic said it will use a system developed by British Telecommunications plc which will allow passengers to charge air-to-ground calls to their Global System for Mobile communications accounts and receive mobile calls on the plane’s handsets.
The passenger will swipe a Mobile Connect card through the aircraft handset and dial a registration number. Callers to the GSM number pay only for the ground call, Virgin said.
Virgin also said it is developing a system to send and receive e-mails.
