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- brklynmark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Perfect for committing fraud en route to a non-extradition country.
- james2die4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14T-Mobile can't get broadband to work on the ground! You think it will work at 30,000?
- K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Will they have in-flight snakes?
- chevas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Means absolutely nothing until they provide power outlets for your laptop. This still bothers me with flights. Trains seem to have it down.
- myfanwy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7if that fat, sweaty, smelly guy next to me with a cough and who keeps elbowing me, starts talking at the top of his voice on skype, there's gonna be a *****' massacre
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I thought this said "Luftwaffe", and I was about to freak out and think the German's at at it again.
Now that I think about it, I doubt half of the Digg users even know what the Luftwaffe was. - AhrenBa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Das ist gut! :) That's the extent of my German, but really, this is freaking awesome!
- Uranium118, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What are the laws when you're a few kilometers in the air over the ocean?
- peterjmag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3As dblespresso mentioned, they offered this a while back (thus the use of the word "reinstating" in the actual article, which is strangely missing from the posted description) through a different provider.
- nils, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Uh, yeah, so you travelled with an airplane for the first time and you had a bad experience. Welcome to the wonderful world of commercial aviation. I assure you that other airlines aren't better, and some are much worse.
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Given that it's Lufthansa, chances are it's the German branch of T-Mobile that's doing this, not ye olde T-Mob... [carrier lost]
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I was surprised to find power outlets on my coach from Malaysia to Singapore! Used it to charge my mp3 player. I have never seen those in UK coaches.
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Perhaps you can try stealing a moment or two of connectivity from planes passing overhead with a well-targeted pringles can.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i wonder how much broadband will cost on Kazakhstan airlines
- Space_Balls, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2what the Luftwaffe WAS?
Still quite there today! http://www.luftwaffe.de - crazydiode, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2the last thing i want is a person next to me go yaaada yaada yaada all thru my 12 hrs flight. broadband is okay.. not in-flight calls.
- Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Thank you for the oh-so cryptic message.
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Do not use Luftansa for international travel!
I took a flight to Venice on Luftansa, and it was the most horrible international flight I have ever had. You know how international flights seats are spaced out to give you a little more extra leg room over coach on domestic flights? Not Luftansa, it was like flying cross-country coach only for ten hours.
Food? They ran out of one of the two choices on the way out, and on the way back ran out of food altogether. - Bluntzilla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Does VoIP work?
- nils, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Of course Engadget doesn't cite ANY sources. Welcome to Web 2.0 journalism, where people can make up stuff. And, really, the entire Engadget article reads horribly uninformed. What is "email", besides "data", after all?
For the record: Yes, LH will re-introduce in-flight Internet (they had it until Conexxion went belly-up, which all those wondering about it here at Digg would have known had they read the Engadget posting), but they have not yet decided on a provider to use. My source works directly at Lufthansa; there was an internal (and quite unspecific) news item about this subject yesterday. - dblespresso, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Im pretty sure that they already offer it for a fee. I recall this available 2 yr ago. (Frankfurt to Dallas)
- juggrnaut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My friend works for a little company that is working on in-flight entertainment for American Airlines planes. Just about every airline will have in-flight broadband (and more) by 2008 for ALL flights.
Can't wait to join the mile high pwnage club. - SidU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yea, pretty sure they do... http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/14/biz.trav.internet/
- BigTom3007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WiFI. 802.11 b You pay $30 USD before the flight or in the air for 8 hour flights. It works off using Satliettes when over Oceans and like Cell Phone Towers when over land.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They could run 12V lines to the seats that will accept a car adapter, avoid the high voltage danger, and car adapters don't cost that much; not really asking that much to make you buy one for your laptop if running 120V lines would be too dangerous (I think it would be, or I'll put it this way: THEY'LL think it would be too dangerous, they won't do it and I can almost guarantee you they'll cite safety reasons first and foremost).
- BigTom3007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They used to have this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing But Boeing dropped out of this since no money was being made. They are re-installing all the old equipment into the plans from Boeing for the T-Mobile network.
- dvdmations, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Lufthansa offers free wifi already, which was speedy when I used it. It reached speeds of 60 kb/s. They seem to be something right already. GO LUFTHANSA!
ps. Anyone else notice the german stuarist chics... they fit in 2 categories
A) Sexy, blonde.
B) Masculine, short.
No in betweens.... - maccode, on 12/10/2007, -0/+0http://www.broardband.net/tiscali.php
http://www.maccode.org.uk - twowords, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Anyone has a link that explains how it works?
- BigTom3007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Well since they are using all the old equipment from Boeing before it had a firewall on it that worked great.
- BigTom3007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0They do :)
- Hammerjoe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Here we are trying to get broadband 30000feet into the air and I cant get freaking broadband in *MY FREAKING HOUSE*!
- BigTom3007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Welcome! SAS, LOT Polish Airlines, Atlina do this too.
- juggrnaut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Just about all of the airlines are working on this.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Dangerous depending how the system is setup through the plane.
- bethune, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Would be a great place to do some file sharing if you know what I mean.
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