Comments on: Surprise! Wi-Fi Alliance Says Travelers Want Wi-Fi on Planes

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:47:40 +0000

This is true. I’ve used American and the Wi-Fi wasn’t the issue that my MacBook and the reclined guy in front of me was.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:30:24 +0000

Rude people are going to break this for the rest of us the same way Spammers ruined Email.

Or, I’ll start packing a WiFi jammer in my carry on.

Someone is going to find a way to make a phone call that won’t hoover our wallets. Lets call it… Skype.

Someone either drunk or devoid of manners and intelligance will cause other passengers to decide the consequences of opening the emergency exit to throw this person out really is the best available option at thirty thousand feet.

Is it really worth that to be able to spend those four hours surfing for porn?

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:11:30 +0000

I live in India. Wi fi on planes, first where are the hotspots on the land??????? I am planning to buy a Blackberry curve 8900 and for faster internet experience I wanted to subscribe to Tata’s Boingo like service but so few wi fi spots????? So if I am not in Mumbai or Pune, this thing is a fail for me. India needs to ramp up the IT infrastructure big time and that too at an age when we are showing light to the world in the IT services.

By: pk de cville

pk de cville — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:26:48 +0000

” I’ve had the opportunity to try in-flight Wi-Fi and found it altogether miserable.”

You haven’t flown on VIRGIN AMERICA my friend. I found it altogether astonishing!

Faster than my fast DSL at home.

Kudos to Virgin and thanks!

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By: stelt

stelt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:32:00 +0000

I prefer internet access before warm water in a hotel, but leg space and then AC power before wifi in a plane. I’m a tall geek.