Europe’s Ryanair to Push Passengers One Step Closer to the Edge with In-Flight Mobile Phone Service

If you’re flying one of Europe’s many discount carriers and you’re not violently hungover, you’re probably doing something wrong–the cabins of those single-class A319s are bubbling tempests of unshowered, throbbing rage that always seem a fraction of a degree away from boiling over. Now on your sunrise flight from Krakow to Berlin, you can enjoy constant mobile phone blabbing from up to six surrounding seats thanks to the good folks at Ryanair, 3, and O2.

After being herded like cattle (a common metaphor, yes, but never so true) to your gate’s waiting area which has no seating, bare overhead fluorescent bulbs and a stench not amenable to life, and then after fighting for an unassigned seat and buying your hair-of-the-dog Bloody Mary for $US9 US, you can call home and tell everyone how much fun you’re having. All for $US4 per minute on service provided by Euro carriers O2 and 3. What a wonderful world. [The Register via Gadget Lab, Image: jon gos]