Tuesday, June 17, 2003
United To Offer Internet Access On Flights
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 08:00 PM
http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/3/2003/06/17/story001.html
"Hoping to get a jump on the competition in the scramble for business travelers, United Airlines is set to announce Tuesday that it will be the first commercial carrier to offer two-way e-mail capability aboard all its domestic flights. By the end of the year, passengers on all flights will be able to plug their laptops into jacks on the Verizon Airfone handsets, which will use technology by Tenzing Communications to transmit e-mails."
Yeah, that sounds good until you read the fine print. :deal:
• It is $5.99 per flight for instant messaging
• $15.97 per flight for email access, including attachment capabilities
• $.10 for each KB once you reach 2KB of data.
Yup. For a 250K Excel file, you will get dinged $40.77 ignoring the general overhead necessary for your client to negotiate with your email server. :roll: I can't wait until the first poor soul gets his laptop set up, enters his credit card number then proceeds to synchronize his Outlook inbox and gets hit for a few hundred dollars.
"Hoping to get a jump on the competition in the scramble for business travelers, United Airlines is set to announce Tuesday that it will be the first commercial carrier to offer two-way e-mail capability aboard all its domestic flights. By the end of the year, passengers on all flights will be able to plug their laptops into jacks on the Verizon Airfone handsets, which will use technology by Tenzing Communications to transmit e-mails."
Yeah, that sounds good until you read the fine print. :deal:
• It is $5.99 per flight for instant messaging
• $15.97 per flight for email access, including attachment capabilities
• $.10 for each KB once you reach 2KB of data.
Yup. For a 250K Excel file, you will get dinged $40.77 ignoring the general overhead necessary for your client to negotiate with your email server. :roll: I can't wait until the first poor soul gets his laptop set up, enters his credit card number then proceeds to synchronize his Outlook inbox and gets hit for a few hundred dollars.
