FCC to allow cell phones on airlines. But the best part is this:
Currently, the only way passengers on domestic flights can communicate with the ground is through phones usually built into seatbacks. That service isn’t very popular: It costs far more than conventional or cell phones — about $3.99 a minute — and the reception often is poor.
Then one paragraph later:
Verizon Airfone, which is the only company that offers seatback phone service, maintains that letting one company handle the service would ensure the best quality.
Oh yeah.