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American Airlines and AirCell Announce Plans for In-Flight Wi-Fi
Filed in archive Wi-Fi by jeff goldman on August 1, 2007
American Airlines and AirCell Announce Plans for In-Flight Wi-Fi

American Airlines today announced plans to work with AirCell to provide high-speed Internet access via Wi-Fi in-flight on its Boeing 767-200 aircraft, which are primarily used for transcontinental flights. If the solution is successful, it will then be expanded to the rest of the airline's fleet.


"Travelers are already bringing their own Wi-Fi enabled devices onto planes," says AirCell CEO Jack Blumenstein. "Bringing broadband access onto domestic flights at an everyday, affordable price provides travelers the opportunity to recapture time."


"American Airlines has committed to testing, AirCell says, not yet actual deployment," notes Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman. "Fair enough, because no such commercial offering has ever existed. The tests will start in 2008 and cover the entire area of the US; AirCell is negotiating for its service to operate in Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean, but had no announcements today about progress there."


More here from Engadget ... more here from TMCnet ... more here from Computerworld ... more here from Reuters ... and more here from the Associated Press.




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