I’d much rather have this than the constant cigarette smoke being blown in my face on every sidewalk, outdoor cafe/restaurant, outside of every single building, etc. when I travel internationally, especially Europe and the Middle East.

I agree with not making calls. Whether it’s confidential or not seems irrelevant as those conversations shouldn’t be had when people can overhear anywhere, not just on a plane, and the confidential nature doesn’t impose extra harm on the person overhearing.

I think the bigger issue, in terms of my flight experience are couples having loud (or even just medium volume) conversations. In terms of impact,it’s the same on me.

Funny story. En route to Hong Kong back in Spring 2017; sitting in J, have WiFi for texts messages. We were in the middle of closing a large capital raise so got WiFi for whole flight so could get emails / texts. Somewhere over the pacific I hear this vibrating sound, look over, and my phone is ringing. Had no idea at the time WiFi calling would work; it was our outside counsel and I picked it up out of sheer curiosity. When I said hello, our lead attorney said “oh ...., you missed your flight”. He was calling to leave me a VM assuming I would get it when we landed and when I picked up he assumed I was obviously not in the plane.

After we both laughed for a minute, especially at the fact the quality of the call was better than many times when I was on the ground, we got a bunch covered which allowed me to get other stuff done upon landing and sped the closing up by a day. At the time the FA walks by and I looked up and said “am I allowed to do this??” Which she laughed and said “I had no idea it would work, knock yourself out”.

I kept my voice at a lower level and afterwards the person to my right in the center section and I talked as she was shocked as well. She said if she didn’t see the phone (I had it on my ear, not speaker) she would have assumed I was talking to another pax and it was not at all intrusive and should could not really hear anything clear.

So, all valid points against calls but I guess in my situation my consideration for others around me and the enormous time it saved us it all worked out. YMMV.

Cheers,
TG

First, your quoted paragraph does not prohibit it. If one can find a service that works in this capacity, there is nothing prohibiting that person from using it. Secondly, even if it did say VOIP is prohibited, what court is going to rule that a marketing paragraph in a quarterly entertainment magazine is legally binding?

So again, where is the rule that prohibits VOIP calls that everyone keeps citing?

Far from coear as I see a laptop using VoIP prohibited under that definition. Not sure why you think a laptop is excluded. It is mobile and it has wireless capabilities. Nothing about primary purpose in the definition.

never mind, I see we are in agreement