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United Adding Wi-Fi To A Measly 13 Planes
8:41AM Mark Wilson | United Airlines is getting Wi-Fi…sort of. Only 13 Boeing 757s will receive Aircell’s popular Gogo service for coast-to-coast flights by November. The price will range from $US13 for laptops to $US8 for smartphones and other small Wi-Fi devices. [Chicago Tribune via CrunchGear]
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American Airlines Installing Wi-Fi on 318 Planes
5:59AM Mark Wilson | As of right now, American Airlines has Gogo Wi-Fi on all of 15 planes. Today they’ve announced that 318 more planes will be getting this $US100,000 upgrade…but it will take a few years for the project to be complete. By the time it actually happens, I plan on having internet beamed straight to my soul. It’ll only be 6Mbps, but I’ll really feel the pain of all those cat memes. [LA Times] More »
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Live in Air: 10 Things You Need To Know About In Flight Wi-Fi
10:30AM Brian Lam | I’m live from Virgin America’s Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And yes, I am posting this live from 15k feet over the Pacific Ocean. More »
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Flight Test: Porn and VOIP Confirmed at 35,000 Feet
2:15PM Wilson Rothman | Jalopnik’s Road Test Editor Wes Siler is currently at 35,000 feet, flying American Airlines from LA to NY. Since his Boeing 767 had the recently launched Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi, and since he was already using it to get his work done, we decided to see how far the service could go in terms of in-flight comforts. More »
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American Airlines Caves In to Religious Groups’ Pressure, Filters In-Flight Porn
6:20AM Jesus Diaz | I was hoping that American Airlines would stand up against religious groups’ stupid demands, keeping their in-flight online service completely un-filtered. After all, they had great arguments: filtering porn sites will jeopardise the access to legitimate web sites, hindering the usability of their aeroplane wireless network. Not to mention the fact that people wanting to look at naughty bits in airplanes can always watch the porn stored in their computers, mobile phones, and personal multimedia players. The network filtering is not going to change that. Sadly, they now have changed their tune: More »
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Delta to Block Porn On In-Flight Wi-Fi So Flight Attendants Don’t Have To
4:45AM John Mahoney | Where the open internet goes, porn follows; however, this golden rule is being re-evaluated for the friendly skies by Delta, who plans to filter web sites used on their implementation of Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service. While most of the early adopters of in-flight Wi-Fi have said they will only filter certain types of traffic and not web content itself, relying on flight attendants to handle case-by-case complaints of passengers attempting to join the solo mile high club right from their seat. Which they obviously weren’t too happy about. More »
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Air Canada to Be First International Airline With Aircell In-Flight Wi-Fi
10:36PM John Mahoney | Aircell, the company behind American Airlines and later Delta’s in-flight Wi-Fi services, has just signed up Air Canada to be the next airline to offer its passengers the web in the air via Gogo. They’ll soon begin fitting their Airbus A319s with the necessary gear, and the service will begin on select flights that cross the border to the south starting in the spring of 2009, guaranteeing no Canuck is without live NHL score updates and news about their bad-arse socialised health care for more than a few minutes at a time. Phew.
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Aircell Responds to In-Flight VoIPers: Just Don’t Do It
11:40PM John Mahoney | It’s a rule as old as time: tell a bunch of geeks they can’t do something, and they will find a way. Any way. Thus the Flash-based Phweet trick to get around Aircell and American Airlines’ ban on VoIP using their Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service. Now, Aircell has responded with a light wrist-slapping statement. More »
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How to Make VoIP Calls on Aircell’s In-Flight Wi-Fi
2:20AM John Mahoney | The folks at Aircell, providers of the Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service that launched on American last week, have admitted that the ban on video and VoIP chats via Skype and other clients is not bandwidth related, it’s for the sanity of everybody else on the plane (much like the in-flight calling ban that’s started to float around Congress). Well, after the first few days of the service, Andy over at VoIP Watch has found a backdoor via the Twitter-based VoIP app Phweet that allows for chatting from 35,000 feet. If you must, read on for the details. More »
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