Fly Wi-Fi
Em breve poderemos viajar conectados. Acho ótimo poder ter internet e passar um tempo se divertindo ou trabalhando nas chatas e cansativas viagens de avião. Só espero que o mesmo não acontece com os celulares (embora as pessoas possam usar skype pelo computador!)…Muito chato viajar com uma pessoa falando o tempo todo e te obrigando a compartilhar da sua vida…Mas, as usual, teremos que pagar, pelo menos no início, pelo serviço.
Vejam matéria do New York Times
“Passengers may soon hear a new in-flight announcement: ‘You can now log on.’ Starting next week and over the next few months, several United States airlines will test Internet service on their planes. On Tuesday, JetBlue Airways will begin offering a free e-mail and instant messaging service on one of its planes, while American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines plan to offer broader Web access in coming months, probably at a cost around $10 a flight.
‘I think 2008 is the year when we will finally start to see in-flight Internet access become available,’ said Henry Harteveldt, an analyst with Forrester Research, ‘but I suspect the rollout domestically will take place in a very measured way.’ ‘In a few years time,’ he added, ‘if you get on a flight that doesn’t have Internet access, it will be like walking into a hotel room that doesn’t have TV.'(…)”