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Google In-Flight WiFi?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we're-googling-in-the-air dept.

Google has been trying hard to be break into the Enterprise market, without notable success. The Formtek blog suggests that projects like this week's roll-out of free WiFi in Mountain View blur their focus from areas where they might achieve a higher ROI. Both Boeing's and Verizon's recent announcements of exiting the in-flight WiFi space might be an opportunity for Google to capture more attention from business eyeballs in airports and on-flight.

But highly unlikely.

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  1. distrust of "?" by morie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never trust a /. article with a question mark in the title

    Next: "Google may enter the console market but most likely not..."

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  2. How about train wifi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, we need to be discouraging flying unless it's over oceans. Wifi on the train could go a long ways towards making people even less inclined to use air transport instead of train transport. Even if a train is a little bit slower than a plane, if I can do some work and/or play on the train, I think I would be much more inclined to take it, esp. with the hand luggage debacle currently gripping air travel. Here in Germany where the trains are much faster than most of Amtraks, as far as I know there is no wifi on the ICEs. Last time I went to Japan(in May) there also wasn't any wifi service as far as I know.

    Train wifi should be much easier and cheaper than plane wifi, so why isn't there any interest in it?

  3. Re:Business Model by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they sell advertising... in exchange for money.

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