Internet on American Airlines
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American Airlines has added another income source. It is offering broadband service:
“…For $12.95, passengers on AA flights using its Boeing 767-200 will be able to surf the Net, check e-mail, instant message and access corporate VPN accounts using the system by Aircell LLC.
The ground-based system – called GoGo – won’t enable any voice-based functions.”
link: American Airlines launches in-flight broadband service
The limitation of voice based functions seems in keeping with the recent cell phone bans made by Congress. It seems that VoIP will not be an alternative.
Catherine Forsythe
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VoIP on Airlines ~ DogReader
August 26th, 2008
at 2:00pm
[...] the announcement of broadband internet services on airlines, some people speculated that voice over internet protocol (VoIP) calls would follow quickly. [...]