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Proposal for Air-to-Ground Mobile Broadband Service Troubles Flight Attendants

An FCC proposal to establish an air-to-ground mobile broadband service over the contiguous U.S. troubles the Association of Flight Attendants, representatives told agency officials, said a filing posted Friday in docket 13-114. “These concerns are similar in nature to those…

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expressed in reply comments to another Commission proposal, one that would lift a long-standing ban on using cellphones for voice and data on flights,” the group said. “Either proposal would greatly enhance communications capabilities for terrorists and increase cyberwarfare vulnerabilities, leading to unacceptable risks of successful attacks on the United States aviation system.”