Hi
I need to access teletext (type) messages giving me information on flight arrivals at Heathrow and Gatwick. At home/office I use BBC pages 441-446 and ITV 181-186. I have tried email on my mobile- too erratic. The BA system is designed for 9 year olds and is often unobtainable.
The portable TVs on the market don't have teletext.The reason I need it that I operate an airport car service and it is very useful to see when a flight is estimated to arrive, or has landed.
Any ideas chaps/chapesses would be much appreciated?
Best wishes drbe Don
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I'm not clear where you are going to be for this requirement, but does the TV/Teletext card for computers solve your problem?
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Sorry if I didn't make it clear, my requirement is for when I am out on the road and away from a computer or TV.
Thanks drbe Don
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Don;t know of any existing solution, but in principle...
You can access teletext pages on the web. If you have an 'always on' net connection you could have a (for example) VB app that downloads the required info at specified intervals and then sends you SMS messages.
And, no, I'm not volunteering to write it for you...
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Try and find a second hand 7 series BM with the optional TV and teletext fitted.
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Seems some Nokia phones can do it - but probably depends whether the Beeb transmit it that way... I'll let you do the research!!
(Could call Nokia or Carphonewarehouse, they might be able to help)
www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2400.html shows a Finnish equivalent...
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In my experience the airlines usually post late arrivals - when it is too late to do anything about it - like 20 mins before flightplan eta - or am I too cynical!?
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I,m with NormanB on this one! The other day I checked on a railway company's own website re a train I was catching and it was 'on time'; 10 minutes later when I got to the station it was 75 minutes late! Further research that evening showed a total lack of coordination between teletext, the railway website and their telephone operators. You should be able to telephone airport information and ask for the arrival time of BA 4342 or whatever. Problems are that they may not answer the telephone and the information they give you may be not be correct or up to date (see above)
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I,m with NormanB on this one! The other day I checked on a railway company's own website re a train I was catching and it was 'on time'; 10 minutes later when I got to the station it was 75 minutes late! Further research that evening showed a total lack of coordination between teletext, the railway website and their telephone operators. You should be able to telephone airport information and ask for the arrival time of BA 4342 or whatever. Problems are that they may not answer the telephone and the information they give you may be not be correct or up to date (see above)
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I,m with NormanB on this one! The other day I checked on a railway company's own website re a train I was catching and it was 'on time'; 10 minutes later when I got to the station it was 75 minutes late! Further research that evening showed a total lack of coordination between teletext, the railway website and their telephone operators. You should be able to telephone airport information and ask for the arrival time of BA 4342 or whatever. Problems are that they may not answer the telephone and the information they give you may be not be correct or up to date (see above)
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I,m with NormanB on this one! The other day I checked on a railway company's own website re a train I was catching and it was 'on time'; 10 minutes later when I got to the station it was 75 minutes late! Further research that evening showed a total lack of coordination between teletext, the railway website and their telephone operators. You should be able to telephone airport information and ask for the arrival time of BA 4342 or whatever. Problems are that they may not answer the telephone and the information they give you may be not be correct or up to date (see above)
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Apologies for multiple postings - some Internet scripting eror or something. Sorry!
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Did you try:
www.baa.co.uk/main/mobile/baa_mobile_services_fram...l
From what I can see it does what you want.
Note, that's BAA, not BA.
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How about an Orange SPV and downloads from Expedia?
As I understand it (I'm getting mine tomorrow), the SPV lets you read HTML, rather than WAP pages, on the phone.
This might be expensive, of course, although it may be one of those instances where it's worth bundling the minutes and GPRS on one bill. (I'm not sure what the GPRS costs will be).
(Little plug: mine was free with www.avrmobiles.co.uk)
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That's www.avrmobiles.co.uk
The other URL accidentally included the close bracket, I think.
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This thread will move to Discussion later on.
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