JetBlue Offers First In-flight E-mail In US

[Guest]

New York (NY) - For years it has been a rumor and a near reality, but now it’s actually happening - airline passengers will be able to access full e-mail and IM services at tens of thousands of feet above ground.
The service begins on JetBlue’s flight

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[Guest]

Eh... this is all marketing propaganda. Lufthanza has been doing this for at least two years.

Oh, and a computer mouse is the latest in hardware.

 

[Guest]

That sounds neet, so at 30,000ft above the ground I can still keep in touch with my friends on yahoo messenger...does that include other instant messaging programs as Windows messenger and google talk?
P.S.: that would be so practical for those WiFi smart phones or those who don't mind carrying their bulky laptops on board...watch your own movies AND talk to your friends...😀

 

[enewmen]

I just hope the service is ONLY for email and Messenger.
Or people will be yacking on skype the whole trip.

 

[Guest]

"Eh... this is all marketing propaganda. Lufthanza has been doing this for at least two years.

Oh, and a computer mouse is the latest in hardware."

"JetBlue Offers First In-flight E-mail In <b>US</b>"

 

[Skeptikon]

Billed as a "service," the access limitation means this is merely an opportunity for LiveTV, a JetBlue subsidiary, and Yahoo to shove advertising down the throat of a captive audience.

 

[Guest]

So much for Net Neutrality at 30,000 feet. I'll avoid this airline as one which seized it as an opportunity to make me join THEIR service instead of providing me a service.

 

[Guest]

This is not new. Boeing had a service called ConneXion by Boeing that gave full broadband access in flight. But not enough airlines ordered it and it was a money loser so they shut it down at the end of 2005.

 

[Guest]

Why is it that the US is so far behind the times on this type of thing. Two years ago I flew to Sweden on SAS and used my WiFi laptop to watch my SLING-box from the plan, then the train, and the boat from Stockholm to Helsinki! The rest of the world is used to unrestricted portable bandwidth and the user decides how they want to use it. (locked cell phones ring a bell) Here in the US is all about restrictions, dominations and control, land of the free? I think not.