Broadband at 30K Feet ARINC joins the aerial broadband fray (old news - 09:07AM Thursday Aug 26 2004) tags: business · alternatives
Promising 5Mbps to the aircraft, and 256Kbps off-aircraft, a press release from ARINC heralds the company's entry into the airline broadband business. While services like Connexion and Tenzing are seeing some adoption, the majority of major US airlines are too cash-strapped to afford the addition of such services.
I lived in Hong Kong for ~20 years and still go back and forth frequently.
Give me a good business class seat, a good book and a couple of glasses of a good Merlot and I'm set for the 12-13 hour nonstop from Dallas-Ft.Worth to Tokyo or the 14 hr+ from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
The last thing I want to do on a long flight is get e-mails from my boss. A long flight is a great place to just relax.
P.S. I don't take my laptop to the bedroom either !
Well, I guess if you on aircraft flying 30 k feet up and downloading mp3's, RIAA cant do anything because you most of the time is over neautral teritory, oceans, ice etc!
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