Australia's Qantas plans to allow mobile phones to be used on planes during flights. An evaluation will be conducted in the first quarter of 2007 during a three-month trial on Australian domestic routes operated with Boeing 767 aircraft for the service, the airliner said.
Nokia wins a deal to supply Thai mobile operator DTAC with the Nokia Connect eRefill, a solution for electronic top-ups of prepaid accounts. With Nokia Connect eRefill, DTAC prepaid subscribers can recharge their accounts by buying small amounts of airtime from a host of resellers.
Shenzhen Customs officials report that smugglers have been caught using a sewerage pipe to smuggle mobile phones from Hong Kong into China mainland. The smugglers tunneled down to reach a sewerage pipe which runs across to the border to Hong Kong where the phones would be collected by van and taken away for sale, the agency reported.
US media giants CBS and Comcast reduce the price tags off their video-on-demand offering of primetime series. The companies announced a new pact that will not only make episodes of CBS fare like 'Survivor' free on video-on-demand, but for even more shows, for a longer period time, and in all Comcast markets.