Ryanair now allow mobiles to be used in flight!
Does anyone have any figures showing the cost of keeping the picocell equipment in the air for around 10 or 12 hours per day ? Alternatively, does anyone know the cost for carrying 1 kg of extra mass in something like a 737 for a year ?
I suspect that network airlines may want to provide a picocell as part of the general service offering - particularly to those sitting in the pointy bit of the airframes, but that the likes of Ryanair will do so only if it's a directly profitable ancillary. I'd be interested to know how much people would need to spend on an average 2 hour flight for this kind of thing to be profitable to Ryanair