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WiFi to Go Mile High

Posted in News by Dan at 5:00 pm
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US based airlines are finally understating that life does not pause when you are in the air, and they are going to be offering Wi-Fi service onboard flights. W00t!

A company called AirCell will install equipment on airliners that will act as a WiFi hotspot in the cabin and connect to laptop computers with a cost of no more then $10 a day trip, with discounts for T-Mobile, iPass and Boingo customers. Speeds are expect to be similar to DSL quality.

I can’t begin to say how exited I am about this. Whatever airline deploys this first is my airline of choice, blogging from 35,000 feet is a dream come true.

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7 Responses to “WiFi to Go Mile High”

  1. Newtonick says:

    It’s about time, I’d say.

    I’ll be waiting for your first airborn post. Make sure to take a picture.

  2. Myke says:

    Amen to that brother! And even better… Im a T-Mobile customer.

  3. Justin says:

    lol i thought they already had wifi on planes X)

  4. Alan Rager says:

    Um… whatever happened to “RF interference”?

  5. Andrew Clark says:

    @Alan

    Everything is now shielded in a plane.. no worries of RF interference anymore.

  6. Ravi says:

    @Andrew

    Then why do they tell you to turn off your cell phones and everything else using batt. power?? jw

    But this is pretty kool…this means i can listen to xm while on the plane…woot woot

  7. Matt says:

    I don’t turn off my phone and other battery powered shit up in the air. “Fuck that”. It can’t pickup a signal anyhow so it doesn’t fuck with it.

    Matt.

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