On my Emirates flight back from Thailand I switched on my phone (changing back to HK SIM) and noticed that I was getting a signal. What? 'Aero Mobile' roaming. Wow. The airline must have a satellite link-up and a local GSM transcevier. Of course I couldn't wait to inquire about the charges (pretty dull, in hindsight) and wanted to see if it worked. Fired off an SMS and received an incoming call (couldn't really hear anything on the latter). Charges were actually not too bad (that's HK$ == US$ / 8):
According to their website: http://www.aeromobile.net/ Telenor is one of the partners (will I get better rates if I have a Telenor connection from Pakistan?). And they also offer data services. 3G is probably not far off.
I guess the only way to disconnect now is to actually pull the plug. Here's a brave story. :)
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