FCC Mulls Wireless Internet Access on Jets

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to communication, commercial airline passengers go from the Internet Age to the Stone Age once a plane takes off.

They can't get a high-speed connection for their laptops. They can't use a wireless connection to check e-mail on domestic flights. They can't use their cell phones at all.

Federal regulators are considering changing at least some of that. They plan to vote Wednesday whether to allow travelers wireless high-speed Internet access. And they plan to talk about, without a vote, whether to end the cell phone ban.

The Federal Communications Commission also is looking again at the contentious issue of how to increase competition for local phone service.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-fcc-air-travelers,0,5835515.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Kellanved]

1. huh?

The last flight I was on offered a broadband WLAN internet connection. I didn't have a notebook with me to try it though. And of course it wasn't an US domestic flight.

[searchingforlight]

2. PLEASE Save Us!!

Just what I want is to listen to someone else trying to impress everyone with their importance AND a cacophony of rings for two+ hours.