UK consumers: ‘Please, no voice calls on planes!’

There’s been plenty of talk recently about the rules concerning mobile use on airplanes being relaxed. Spying an opportunity for some cheeky brand promotion, Yahoo has commissioned a topical survey to find out what us Brits make of the news. And it seems 87% of us would like voice calls to stay banned on flights. It’s understandable, given the prospects of some annoying businessman quacking away next to you for an entire long-haul flight.  However, Yahoo claims that UK consumers “strongly” support the idea of accessing mobile data features while flying, with 49% saying email would be the most useful feature, and 14% saying they’d like to check the weather. It has to be said though that some stats are lacking from the announcement of the survey results. For example, how many people said they WOULDN’T want mobile internet usage allowed on planes? It could be as high as 51%, in theory…

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