Company: Connexion by Boeing
What is it?
It’s high speed internet access in the sky. I just posted a profile of a new skype tool and did it all sitting here on an SAS flight from Seattle to Copenhagen (heading to the ICANN conference in Luxembourg next week). The technology for this has been around for a few years, but this is my first experience using it. I’m skype-outing at $0.02 per minute, gizmo’ing, IMing with people, uploading and downloading like crazy, and generally making a nuisance of myself to everyone around me.
Pricing is $30 for the entire trip. What a wonderful productivity tool for long flights while we research, use and write about new web2.0 services!
Screen Shots and Pictures:
Links:
Stratoblog
Blog Business Summit
Skype Air Heads
Flickr tag: connexion
Chris Pirillo uses the Service (from the parking lot at first 
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Tags: boeing, connexion, techcrunch, web2.0, VOIP
Connexion just announced they are re-evaluating there business ( closing ), shame you just got it going on skype I mean.
It just makes sense I suppose,
The take up rates required for any avionics connectivity project compared to the cost and reliability of your neighborhood coffee shop create a cost / service dilemma that inevitably disenfranchises users.
In simple consumer terms you get far better service for free, at a coffee shop with your $5 mocha , than you do in a plane for $30 an hour, after spending $2000 on you airfare.