AeroMobile announced it has clocked up its 100,000th user confirming a dramatic increase in calls this year. The company said this milestone was passed when a Singaporean passenger made a call from 36,000 feet during Emirates flight EK404 from Dubai to Singapore. Thousands of passengers on 31 AeroMobile-equipped Emirates aircraft depart daily from Dubai to destinations across its global network. Over 350 Emirates short and long haul flights operate weekly with AeroMobile covering services to 49 countries. Usage data from actual flights shows that at peak times, in excess of 100 passengers are switching on their mobile phones during a flight. With the first 50,000 users in the first nine months since the system's launch, the second 50,000 have been clocked up in less than two months. As the service availability has broadened, the number of users has shot up from 10,000 a month at the end of 2008 to 25,000 a month so far this year. Following a successful launch with Emirates in March 2008, AeroMobile-equipped aircraft have seen over 370,000 flight hours of operation. Emirates Engineering is now rapidly rolling the system out across the remainder of the Airbus and Boeing fleets. AeroMobile is presently operating on Emirates A340, A330 and B777 aircraft. AeroMobile said its system on Emirates aircraft will be upgraded later this year to offer GPRS services. This will enable passengers to send and receive e-mails via devices such as Blackberrys and laptops with GPRS data cards.