Bring a Galaxy Note 7 on a plane now it is illegal in the United States. It was decided by the Federal Aviation Administration (the FAA), authority for the flight to the us. The ban is operating from October 15, and offenders face a fine of up to us $ 180,000, in addition to being on the ground.
The Italian Alitalia has immediately followed the ordinance, prohibiting the device on board of all its flights. So far it was forbidden to have it in checked baggage, while by now it is no longer possible to carry it on the plane. It is not clear if the flag carrier airline will apply the ban only to flights to / from the USA or, most likely, on all planes.
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In our country, however, there are many consumers who will have problems from this prohibition. The Notes 7 on the territory of the Italian are, in fact, less than 2000, said the manager Samsung Carlo Barlocco to The Fact Daily, adding that “within the next week (this, NdR) we will collect all devices”. According to Barlocco the operation is costing Samsung a 5 billion euro in lost profits – for the moment, the company has admitted that the costs and losses of 2.5 billion.
In the meantime, there is also an other detail: the Wall Street Journal reveals that the Samsung batteries, internal workshops, while most of the companies rely on an external one. In both cases, it must be personnel authorized to release CTIA certification request for the U.S. market. A company spokesman stressed that the test did not reveal any problem, in the device the original or in the revised version.
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Samsung is not the only one. Lenovo (Motorola) and Microsoft also have internal workshops with staff authorized, but both will soon be closed because CTIA has decided to eliminate this possibility. Lenovo will continue to use an in-house laboratory, and will rely on third-party certification. Microsoft has not released any comments. Tom Sawanobori, chief technology officer for the CTIA, says this is the first case of its kind. “We have certified more than 1,500 batteries,” he said, “this is the first time that we have a problem”.
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According to Eddie Forouzan committee of the IEEE part of the problem lies in the use of laboratory internal to the company, a practice that the CTIA is moving. If the company has its own laboratory with personnel who can issue the certification, in fact, according to Forouzan, there are the foundation for a potential conflict of interest. For John Copelan, who has worked in the laboratory of Motorola, it is a normal thing, useful to protect industrial secrets; the president of the IEEE, Jason Howard agrees, and adds that by doing so a company can get to market faster.
Meanwhile, the south Korean government has decided to open his own investigation on the matter, which adds to the internal one, managed by the same Samsung. If you take care of the Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL), which Samsung has already delivered some samples. The more concerned to shed light on what happened is definitely the same as Samsung: in February, the company should present the Galaxy S8, and certainly not want to get to an important meeting without first having closed the question Notes 7.
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