Business travelers, teens and anyone else who need access to e-mail and text messaging to feel alive will want to fly Qantas if they happen to be traveling around Australia.

The airline has hooked up with a company called AeroMobile, whose technology somehow makes it possible to use cell phones and other devices in-flight without interfering with on-board systems. As a result, passengers on some Quantas domestic flights will be able to send and receive e-mail and SMS messages, according to Cellular-news.

Qantas expects to start rolling out the data services by year-end. Text messaging will require a GSM phone and a global roaming plan and e-mail access will require a device with GPRS, Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti said in the article.

Although AeroMobile's technology also allows voice calls, Qantas won't offer the feature, at least not at launch.