Aircell is to reveal in flight broadband service “gogo”
According to Jack Blumenstein, president and CEO of Itasca of Aircell, you will have in-flight broadband service by this spring called “gogo”. Now titled gogo, the service developed by AirCell will allow browsing and other common Internet tasks over a modified version of a EVDO Revision A cellular connection (used by Sprint and Verizon) to supply a 3Mbps Internet link shared by the whole cabin through Wi-Fi. By compressing the data sent across the network, each user gets a connection closer to 2Mbps, gogo claims. In the initial phase, 15 of American Airlines’ 767s will be broadband-enabled; it plans to eventually take that number to 500. The initial cost will be $12.95 for cross-country flights such as San Francisco to New York, and $9.95 for flights with durations of three hours or less. The idea sounds really great and hopfully it will attract all the frequent flyers.
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