No Wireless in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner After All

Filed in archive Wi-Fi by jeff goldman on January 25, 2007

Reuters reports today that Boeing has decided not to use wireless technology to deliver in-flight entertainment on its 787 Dreamliner airplane "because of problems involving plane weight and the technology."

According to the company, a wireless network would add 200 pounds of weight to the plane, while a wired one would only add 50 -- and more importantly, it was an insurmountable challenge to ensure that all required wireless frequencies would be permitted in all countries where the plane might fly.

"Knowing that the regulatory issues were basically insurmountable, it just did not make sense to apply those resources there," says Boeing spokesperson Lori Gunter.

More here from the Seattle Times, and here from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Related Entries:

Palm's Treo 700p: Who Needs Wi-Fi? - 15 May 2006
Nokia 770 Wi-Fi Tablet Gets VoIP - 16 May 2006
Ithaca College Announces CellFlix 2007 - 28 February 2007
Wi-Fi in the Sky - 03 April 2007
Southwest Airlines Wants Wi-Fi - 19 April 2007
Virgin America Promises Wi-Fi on Every Flight - 13 September 2007
Alaska Airlines and Row 44 to Trial In-Flight Wi-Fi in 2008 - 18 September 2007
American Airlines Launches Gogo In-Flight Internet Access - 25 June 2008

« Ventura Pulls Muni Wi-Fi ... | Main | ABI Disses the iPhone »

Permalink: No Wireless in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner After All

Tags: boeing dreamliner 787 wireless wifi wifi wi+fi inflight inflight in+flight entertainment onboard a

Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/51006

Addthis

Ask

Blinklist

del.icio.us

Digg

Fark

Facebook

Google

Lycos

Ma.gnolia

Mr Wong

Netscape

Netvousz

Newsvine

StumbleUpon

Slashdot

Tailrank

Technorati

Wink

Yahoo

Vote for No Wireless in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner After All:

Currently 8.00/10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Rating: 8.00 out of 3 vote(s) cast.

Response from: PPavarolar (01/16/08 12:44pm)

It looks like there are more problems coming up again with the Boeing 787. The FAA recently cited the 787's computer systems to be unsecured and prone to hacking. This probably further seal the fate of in-flight wifi on the 787 because when the computer systems is not secured there is no chance that FAA will allow any type of in-flight connection to the world wide web to increase more chance of people hacking into the plane's system. I got the news from this post here http://www.airportwifiguide.com/no-chance-for-boeing-787-in-flight-wi-
fi-with-faa-computer-hacking-fear/