No VoIP for AA In-Flight Wi-Fi
Source: www.voip-news.com
Now you can surf the web while flying the friendly skies. American Airlines has rolled out Wi-Fi on flights longer than three hours. Fifteen of the company’s airplanes are outfitted with the capability.
The cost to passengers: $12.95 … that’s more expensive than Wi-Fi at Starbucks or AOL dial-up 10 years ago … I think.
But sorry folks, you won’t be able to tap into VoIP while in the air. American Airlines isn’t allowing it.
Anyway, according to the Chicago Tribune:
The Wi-Fi service is called Gogo and is provided by Aircell, an Itasca-based company that is also outfitting Delta Air Lines aircraft with Internet access. Earlier in August, Delta said it would launch Wi-Fi on some airplanes by fall and expand the service to its entire domestic fleet by next summer.
The Gogo service costs $9.95 for flights of three hours or less, though all of American Airlines initial flights with Wi-Fi are coast-to-coast ones. The first planes to get Wi-Fi are the 767-200 aircraft, which fly nonstop between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles and New York and Miami.
