In-flight broadband ready for take-off
By Chris Green in Editorial
Posted in In-Flight, Travel, Broadband on
A few years ago I was fortunate enough to be invited on-board a test flight for one of several in-flight internet services being trialled at the time.
The one that got all the attention was Boeing’s now defunct Connexions service, but the one I was on was different - instead of bringing wired broadband and an Ethernet socket to each seat, this used 802.11b Wi-Fi to flood the entire plane with internet connectivity. It was a great idea and a successful trial. Unfortunately, nobody had the time or the money to take a transatlantic fleet out of service long enough to install the technology, so Connexions, and every other in-flight broadband service in development was eventually buried.
Fortunately, nobody bothered to tell BlackBerry-maker RIM, internet portal operator Yahoo and US domestic airline JetBlue Read more
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