JetBlue introduces free in-flight email, IM
By Evan Blass 
posted December 6th 2007 4:58PM
posted December 6th 2007 4:58PM
Bandwidth for these services is provided by LiveTV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the carrier that provides the entire fleet with select DirecTV and XM radio channels, and which also happens to possess a valuable 1MHz slice of ground-to-air spectrum that it's deploying for this very purpose (with the help of some 100 existing cell towers around the country). If all goes well in what is admittedly a beta test, more aircraft will receive the WiFi makeover, and more features -- such as access to terabytes of locally-stored multimedia content -- will be rolled out, along with additional service providers besides Yahoo. Just don't expect an open pipe any time soon: that sweet little slice of spectrum is not nearly robust enough to handle the heavy Slinging, VoIPing, and Torrenting you all would obviously be doing.
Russell Peters!!!
Your momma is so fat...
"allowing most any wireless gadget with a Flash-enabled browser to view "
Maybe this will convince Apple to finally add flash player support to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is one of the features that is missing from the Apple product that is stopping me from making the purchase.
N800 will work... :p
But I don't _want_ Yahoo mail, and I don't expect most iPhone users do either. I use gmail. I would expect most people have their own e-mail accounts elsewhere, so this doesn't look especially helpful. Let's hope they open it up to more e-mail services soon.
It's a nice start, but why only Yahoo mail? They should make any web-based mail program accessible.
Obviously they have a deal with Yahoo to subsdize the service.
Pretty cool
This announcement makes me happy in my pants
Thank God. I've been saying to myself for years:
"You know, the 4 hrs each month I sit on a plane is really straining my relationships. I sure wish I could be in touch w/ people 24hr per day."
Seriously, when they get Blackberry service up & running talk to me. Any "colleagues" I'm talking to via Yahoo Mail can wait.
Finally, I used the plane time as "clear out the inbox" time. It keeps me under 300 messages & makes our admin folks very happy.
The story totally says you can use Blackberrys with Wifi. Neat indeed.
Those are just the last two models. I wonder why support is so limited.
Awesome. Kudos to jetblue and yahoo for thinking forward and advancing technology in the US.
so 1000 cell towers is enough to provide coverage to a plane at 25,000 feet no matter where they fly in the us? or are the towers laid out along the plans flight path?
i don't use any yahoo crap so oh well =\
yeah, but would Neil Patrick Harris use it?
absolutely. check it out:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
lol nice try, but NPH doesn't get rickrolled...he does the Doogrolling.
Heard of satellites Siegel? Damn there are some stupid people in the world.
1MHz slice of ground-to-air spectrum that it's deploying for this very purpose (with the help of some 100 existing cell towers around the country).
...like people who can't use the reply button?
Oh, yeah- thethirdmoose got 'cha. Best sit yo' ass back down.
Free until the airline goes though a downturn, in which case they'll make you purchase 5 minute blocks for $5 at a time, just swipe your credit card!
hey, they already have the credit card swipe machines at each seat!
Actually, in-flight Internet is almost here as well:
http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/12/07/wifi-in-the-sky-in-flight-internet-almost-here/
absolutely. check it out:
http://www.myrezeki.com
jet blue also sells your personal data to the government, because they love you...
the cell phone industry does not use satellites - they utilize existing ground towers. there are over 50,000 towers in the US that are used for carrier service. More getting to the next city safely, less annoying yahoo users trying to pretend like they are important. Data and $$ comments are dead on. Nothing is free.