Boeing to ground Connexion in-flight WiFi service
Posted Aug 18th 2006 6:31AM by Michael Sciannamea
Filed under: WiFi, WAN - wide, Business
Boeing has officially announced that it will be grounding its Connexion in-flight WiFi service by the end of this year. The company says that the service never really took off with passengers in the six years of its availability, so it finally decided to shut it down and take a $320 million charge to cover the costs of putting it in mothballs.
There is some speculation that this will deal a major blow to the concept of offering wireless internet service to airline passengers, however JetBlue is going full speed ahead with its own plans to offer in-flight WiFi in the future, so all may not be lost as of yet.
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1. sigh...now only if they allowed laptops and other electronics on the plane/....
Posted at 12:39AM on Aug 19th 2006 by cellphone