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When Richard Branson rolled out the Virgin America airline in August, he promised us in-flight Internet -- though left out the how and when. While the latter is still a mysterious "sometime in 2008," the how will be dealt with through a newly announced partnership with a company called AirCell. AirCell will provide air-to-ground broadband Wi-Fi access to Virgin's fleet, allowing passengers to access the Internet through Virgin's seatback entertainment center or via their own Wi-Fi enabled laptops, smart phones, PDAs or new iPod Touches. In addition to Web access, the seatback system will provide e-mail access and chat through AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN and Google Talk.
But, that's not all. The seatback system also supports Skype, as will passengers' own laptops and BlackBerrys. Despite an FCC ban on in-flight cell phone calls, this definitely opens the door to in-flight voice chatting. The horror....the horror...
From Engadget
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Subscribe to commentsTazSep 16th 2007 9:36AM
As if crying babies weren't bad enough, now we'll have to deal with the obnoxious, self-important businessman talking loudly over skype!
rifleman2cSep 16th 2007 12:00PM
Finally! Now I can talk loudly and at length over an internet phone about the most tedious details and minute scheduling matters of my business transactions! And everyone will know just how important my job is!
This is a great day!
Phil EnzlerOct 15th 2007 11:16PM
I kno that this is going to come up sooner or later. People are gonna wonder how they are allowed to use their wifi on an airplane when for years and years cell phones signals have been banned....it's because wifi, cell phones, mp3 players, cd players, and whatever else crazy that is banned do not actually interfere with airplane electronics! arguably fm tuners (altho not very likely) may actually interfere with the electronics (i've read a report about an fm radio interfering with the ils nav instruments in a commercial jet, altho there was no conclusive evidence), nothing else does. everything is on different bands of the rf spectrum. either way, i wonder what the official faa regulations are regarding rf transmitters/receivers in-flight.