dano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/16/2003 09:49:38 PM:
> <cynic> > The airlines seem to believe that people will pay $3/min for airborne > phone service (for those inflight emergency phone conferences > perhaps). I assume inflight wireless ethernet won't be too far from > that. > </cynic> The price was listed at about 34euros ($32) for the flight, which does seem a little step, maybe they can figure out a way to charge based on usage, per kb, like the old network packets over cell network did. If I did have to pay that much for one flight, I would be streaming video just to get the usage from it. Then again, what about bringing an extra wifi card and proxying service from your laptop, find a couple other people and charge them $10 to use it.. :) Actually I can think of a few friends who would pay that much for a network connection on a long flight like that, anything over 6hrs and a network connection is useful to them so they can get work done. The airplane is one of the few places where they aren't that easily reached, good place to trim down the mailbox. -b -- Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
