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Old Mar 20, 2019, 10:59 am
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sbm12
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Originally Posted by tkey75
Does any airline offer native BT pairing for their IFE?
I believe the first such system finally was delivered to an airline in the past couple months. China Eastern now has it:

Until very recently the IFE vendors suggested that supporting bluetooth to passenger devices would be too difficult and a spectrum nightmare. Now it is possible but requires updated hardware so is only happening on the newest installs and even then only in very limited scenarios. (I wrote that story; FT makes me warn you.)
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