Use mobile phones on MAS flights

Don't you hate it when the air stewardess comes up to you and says you're not allowed to use your mobile phone until the plane has stopped moving?

If you take Malaysia Airlines, you can use your mobile phone and Blackberry-type devices to make phonecalls, send SMS and e-mail.

MAS will become the first air carrier in Asia to offer this. It will be available immediately on selected flights on MAS' routes covering Europe, Australia, and across Asia including China and Japan.

Users will be billed on their regular phone bills by their own service providers as with any other international roaming call, MAS said.

Meanwhile, look at five myths regarding mobile phone use on airplanes.

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Edwin Yapp

An engineer by training, Edwin first cut his teeth as a cellular radio frequency optimization engineer in one of Malaysia's largest telcos. After more than five years, he hung up his radio engineering boots to try his hand at technology reporting at The Star, Malaysia's leading English daily, where he won several awards for Best Online Technology reporting. He left to start his own editorial consultancy and is now a freelance journalist for several publications, including ZDNet Asia. A self-confessed gadget geek, Edwin hopes his blog contributions will stir up deeper discussions within the Malaysian technology scene.