Delta bringing Wi-Fi access to entire domestic fleet
jared
College Station, TX Icrontian
In 2007, Virgin American unofficially became a geek's favorite airline. Their planes featured in-seat LCDs, passenger-to-passenger chat, movies, games, podcasts, and more.
Today Delta upped the ante and announced something even Virgin America doesn't offer yet - in flight broadband Wi-Fi.
That's right, in the near future you will be able to make crude jokes on IRC, troll 4chan, and read xkcd from 30,000+ feet in the air.
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Delta is joining with Aircell®, a 17-year leader in airborne communications for business and commercial aviation, to install the company’s Mobile Broadband Network on the carrier’s domestic fleet. The system, Gogo™, will enable Delta customers traveling with Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs, to access the Internet, corporate VPNs, corporate and personal e-mail accounts, as well as SMS texting and instant messaging services. Gogo will be available to customers for a flat fee of $9.95 on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.
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Plane upgrades are set to start ASAP and Delta expects to have their entire mainstream fleet upgraded by mid-2009.
Today Delta upped the ante and announced something even Virgin America doesn't offer yet - in flight broadband Wi-Fi.
That's right, in the near future you will be able to make crude jokes on IRC, troll 4chan, and read xkcd from 30,000+ feet in the air.
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Delta is joining with Aircell®, a 17-year leader in airborne communications for business and commercial aviation, to install the company’s Mobile Broadband Network on the carrier’s domestic fleet. The system, Gogo™, will enable Delta customers traveling with Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs, to access the Internet, corporate VPNs, corporate and personal e-mail accounts, as well as SMS texting and instant messaging services. Gogo will be available to customers for a flat fee of $9.95 on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.
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Plane upgrades are set to start ASAP and Delta expects to have their entire mainstream fleet upgraded by mid-2009.
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This can't become industry-wide fast enough.
9.95 for flights 3 hours and under.
12.95 for flights over 3 hours.
Pretty sure nobody thought it would be free.....except you
No one said anything about this being free. But for a charge of $13 for any flight over 3 hours, thats something I would be willing to pay to be able to entertain myself on an otherwise dull flight.
//Edit: Snap, RyderOCZ beat me to it!