Daryl Goard
Postmodern Criticmerican Begins Inflight Broadband Access Installation
July 3rd 2008 00:55
Wednesday July the 25th on an American Airlines flight from New York to LA, AA did it's dress rehearsal for in flight Wi-Fi . The full pilot program will be running over the next 3-6 months on about 15 planes. Users will get free access tomorrow but after that you will pay 12.95 for flights over 3 hours and 9.95 for shorter flights. The service is provided by a company called GoGo via a series of cell towers that hand the signal off as the plane travels across the country.
So the question is of course, would you pay 10 bucks to surf on the plane?
If I am going for business I might be prone to use it to bone up on whatever is making me travel in the first place, but I think that if I had a full iPod and a couple DVD's I could make it across the country.
I don't know if I would want to be the guys trying to engineer this thing to work in flight.
You know there would be guys (like me) to see what they could get away with though. What about using voice over IP on the plane? What about setting up a travel router on the plane to share with other passengers? I envision all the myths of planes going down in flames if you turn on a cell phone or radio.
I think this is a great thing for business travel. I don't know if it will matter to much to the occasional traveler but it is yet another step toward a everywhere always on connection.
Peace
So the question is of course, would you pay 10 bucks to surf on the plane?
If I am going for business I might be prone to use it to bone up on whatever is making me travel in the first place, but I think that if I had a full iPod and a couple DVD's I could make it across the country.
I don't know if I would want to be the guys trying to engineer this thing to work in flight.
You know there would be guys (like me) to see what they could get away with though. What about using voice over IP on the plane? What about setting up a travel router on the plane to share with other passengers? I envision all the myths of planes going down in flames if you turn on a cell phone or radio.
I think this is a great thing for business travel. I don't know if it will matter to much to the occasional traveler but it is yet another step toward a everywhere always on connection.
Peace
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