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Boeing Gets FCC Approval For Broadband Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-it-moving dept.

lba writes "Boeing's plans to offer broadband on their planes (as in this earlier /. article) gets into the next phase... BBC News has a story about them now getting FCC approval for this project. Protoypes of Connexion, as the service is called, would be installed on Lufthansa planes in about a year. Three US Airline companies canceled their support for the project last November."

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  1. Wrong investment by Peter+Dyck · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd rather have the cash-starved airlines investing in the security and maintenance than this.

  2. A humorous accident by Chairboy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't know if it's just my browser or what, but the photo of three Boeing jets in the article seems a bit corrupted. The lead jet appears to be either burning or mangled right after the trailing edge of the left wing.

    In articles about airliners, you'd think that this specific type of compression artifact would be noticed earlier.....