Virgin Blogs from Mid Air, 35,000 feet to be Exact!
The option to use mobile devices on an air flight has often been a process surrounded in myth and fallacy. now, using a mobile phone or wireless device was bound to trigger explosive decompression, a failure in the flight controls or even worse, make the stewardess forget those annoying hand gestures in the pre flight tutorial about exiting the plane in case either of the formerly mentioned occurrences actually came to pass.
Recently we have seen the inaugural tests of in flight wifi trialed by a few service providers, and I took a deep breath today as a Twitter post from Ryan Block gave me a heads up to yet another trial.
This is one of the last frontiers for the truly mobile road warrior, imagine the productivity gains, if you could be online on your next eight hour Trans American flight. Well apparently the plane didn’t fall out of the sky, and people were posting quite happily from their cattle class seats as well as first class. The service offers up some impressive upload download speeds,
and Ryan wasn’t the only one to try out the service, and give a good report.There were also Cnet Bloggers on the Virgin expedition
This would have to become standard fare on all flights in the near future, don’t you think? Taking us out of the draconian era of internet and wireless silence of previous airline carriers.
On Virgin America’s inaugural GoGo WiFi flight: this post published from 35,000 feet – Engadget
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