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  • From: Brian <russellb AT yesh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] in flight broadband wireless
  • Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:27:34 -0400

Very good point!
I will be sure to ask every airline employee about it next time I fly.
Really.
:-)
...but you know maybe there was a Faraday cage installed around the cockpit
and in plane data center...or other shielding protection.?
-Brian

> i've been clearly commanded in the past to extinguish all "electronic
> devices" because simply having them turned on would "cause imminent
> danger to the craft" (i.e. the plane would instantly crash into a
> mountain or something).
>
> now they are reversing this 20+ years of bullshit because they want
> more money. crazy how this capitalism thing works! suddenly there is
> no radio frequency interference because some CEO wants a bigger annual
> bonus.
>
> hogwash. complete hogwash. now i will sit patiently and await the
> first wireless hacker terrorist plane being brought down attack. then
> i want to hear an explanation from the same bastards pushing this idea
> now.
>
> "Markets!! They are all just Markets!!"
>
> On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 11:26 AM, ids AT idisplay.com wrote:
>
>> 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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