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Boeing teams with airlines for Net access

updated 12:20 pm EDT, Wed June 13, 2001

 
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Connexion by Boeing has teamed up with American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta to offer in-flight Internet service in a total of 1,500 planes beginning in the second half of 2002, according to c|net. Offering speeds of 5 mbps for incoming and 1 mbps for outgoing (depending on the number of Internet users on each flight), the service will cost approximately $20 per hour.


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    Rape?

    $20 per HOUR! Just bend me over. I thought the phones were expensive!

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    Not with my money

    $10 a flight approaches my price point. Now if I become a consultant and spend someone else's money...

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    Airbus

    $20/hour? I guess I should become a knoweverything consultant...

    Anyway I do not care I'm only flying with Airbus!

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    dude

    20/hour seems VERY cheap for me considering how hard the airlines bend you over for everything else. those little computer terminal things in airports charge more than that.

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    not cheap

    This should even be a free service for some airlines. Charters are usually reasonable price wise, but when you spend 2-4 times more for flying with some of these goons, things like net access should just be a free incentive.

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    VoIP?

    Well, if you get your VoIP working, it might be a cheap end run around the $3.00 per minute for the phones.

    Imagine being able to log in from your seat to the office and have all calls, faxes, e-mails routed to you while jetting from LA to NY. For many the $120 per flight would be extremely cheap productivity.

    However, I suspect that the up and down speed advertized are extremely optimistic. Even 1 mbit only provide fifteen 64kbit channels per flight.

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    huh?

    Paying $8 for a drink in the airport bar is ok, but $20/hr for internet access during flight is bad? WTF? It'll get cheaper as time goes on. Hopefully.

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    A little perspective

    Being overcharged and being raped are two very different things, and the "bend me over" c*** is just homophobic.

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    A little perspective

    bend me over is not homophobic, the poster could very well be a women, I have a g** friends who use such expressions when someone is trying to overcharge them (or what not). I think people just assume that other people are jerks.

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    Cost

    Actually, I suspect that a lot of people will pony up the $20/hr. These are, of course, the same people who absolutely *have* to be in constant connection. We've all seen them... the ones who turn on their cell phones the minute more than two wheels are touching the runway.

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