Just tonight, I was having a discussion with some friends who regularly commute on Virginia's light rail system, about how easy it would be for those trains to offer wireless Internet access, either for free like many Starbucks do or for a fee like Wayport.
Then I read Ernie the Attorney and found out that some airlines are about to do that very thing:
Connexion's service requires installing two antennas on the plane, one to transmit data to satellites and one to receive data. A server and routing system inside the plane relay signals to and from plug-in ports at the seats or wireless networking cards in passengers' laptops.
I guess that old line about interference with navigation systems was just a lie?
Posted by wasylik at December 15, 2002 11:19 PM | TrackBack