June 28th, 2010I am on a plane
Air Canada's in flight internet gets it right.
The great white north recently got a little bit wireless-lessier, even if it is just south of the 49th parallel for now.
For half a decade, airlines have been farting around with trying to get internets on aeroplanes. Well Air Canada has at last achieved the perfect trifecta: Airplane AND wifi AND power plugs. At least over the US for now. This is posted somewhere over the desert, costs $10 for 600kBits/sec effective bandwidth. Ok so you won’t winning any fast twitch online games from the sky, but for than work purposes, more than effective.
Ten bucks is not a terrible price to pay (you’d pay a least that in lattes anywhere else for 4-5 hrs of inter netting). We approve. And the world is one more step closer to total ubiquitous connectivity. Three cheers for “cloud” computing. At this rate, someday you might even be able to stay connected in absolutely crazy places, like the in any of Canada’s subway tunnels (used by millions every day). But we digress.
Anyway, good job Air Canada.
Previously on WirelessNorth.ca: Woo! AirCanada bringing in flight wireless
