View NXTbooks on Demand During Flight
April 14, 2006 by Matthew
Boeing is now offering a service called Connexion by Boeing, which will provide broadband internet connections during flights. Currently, the service is only available on certain international flights, but they are planning to expand the service in the future. The price for the service is more expensive than the typical Starbucks broadband connection (starting at $9.95 for 1 hour of service), but hopefully the prices will drop in the near future.
The best thing about this service? Travellers will now be able to view NXTbooks on demand while flying! NXTbook readers were always able to download an offline version to their laptops to take on trips, but now they need not decide beforehand which NXTbooks to take on the flight. In addition, travellers will be able to view the streaming media that is available in some NXTbooks and click through to publishers’ and advertisers’ web sites. We are one step closer to ubiquitous access to the net!
For more information about Connexion, you can download this podcast interview with Terrence Scott from Boeing.
[...] A while back, I wrote about the in-flight internet service that Boeing has been testing on some of their international flights. According to a Reuter’s article released yesterday, Boeing may be considering selling or closing the unit. The service has yet to turn a profit and Boeing has reportedly invested around $1 billion into the service over the past 6 years. [...]