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  • From: ids AT idisplay.com
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  • Subject: [internetworkers] in flight broadband wireless
  • Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:26:59 -0400

Internetworkers, fyi
"Is Web access Lufthansa's hot ticket?"
http://news.com.com/2100-1039-998282.html?tag=fd_top

"The airline (Lufthansa German Airlines) has been testing equipment and services from Connexion by Boeing, the wireless technology subsidiary of the aerospace giant. For the past three months, passengers on 140 Lufthansa flights have been able to use their laptops to access the Internet at broadband speeds.

Between 50 and 80 passengers per flight used the service, according to preliminary results of the trial run. A typical Lufthansa plane can seat 250 passengers. Web traveling passengers were "doing lots of streaming video" and even using the Web to make phone calls, said Terrance Scott, a Connexion by Boeing spokesman.

...Many companies have yet to see profits in providing customers with wireless Internet service. But Connexion by Boeing enjoys an advantage its competitors don't have: a captive, antsy audience. Boredom, Boeing executives believe, can pay. Revenue from such a service could be between $5 billion to $8 billion annually, the company estimates."

Ed W



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