ARLA/CLUSTER: Reino Unido aprova nova legislação que permite aos passageiros utilizarem dispositivos móveis, com tecnologias 2G, 3G e 4G, a bordo de aeronaves.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Localised mobile communication services on aircraft

Ofcom has set out new regulations enabling airline passengers to use
mobile devices, with 2G, 3G and 4G technologies, on-board aircraft,
without the need for a wireless telegraphy licence, if certain
standards and requirements are met

Under these regulations, passengers can use their devices without
causing interference to land mobile networks. Passengers would connect
to an aircraft base transceiver station, and the network control unit
would ensure that Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service networks
in the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz frequency bands would not be interfered
with.

The system effectively replicates, on an aircraft, the operation of a
land base station. It is intended to implement a recent decision by
the European Commission
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/
?uri=CELEX:32016D2317&from=EN

These regulations will replace similar exemption regulations we made in 2014.

Download the PDF of the decision from
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/notice-of-proposal-to-make-the-wireless-telegraphy-mobile-communication-services-on-aircraft-exemption-regulations-2017