Faster Inflight WiFi Coming To The Sky Near You.

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We have written about the Go Go in flight WiFi before and I have personally experienced (winced) the service on Virgin Airlines. Winced because I wished it could have been better, but it was certainly more useful! I have not flown Airtran, the other fleet wise WiFi airline.
Andy from VoIP Watch tells us that it is going to get better. When I checked in, yes, ViaSat, a satellite communications company, is bringing us, with JetBlue, what it called next-generation Wi-Fi service on JetBlue’s 160-plane fleet. Yes I do catch flights on Jetblue. According to the plan ViaSat will launch a 130GB broadband satellite next year expanding the bandwidth for satellite-based Internet systems.

 “If you want to watch a Netflix movie or you want to download a 50-megabit file from an enterprise server, or you want to interface with media-intensive type applications, this will make it economical,”voiced Richard A. Baldridge, ViaSat’s president and chief operating officer.

 All in all, the service is expanding and it is good news for those who fly and have to resolve to type those long reports during even longer flights. Now you can actually do some work :) like on San Francisco New York Virgin flights.Inflight WiFi should be natural, if you can call it natural.
NYT via VoIP Watch

Virgin America flights Get Free WiFi From Google

If you are planing to do a lot of flying during the holiday season or if you are flying in any case for your work, now there is another factor to consider when you book your flights!
Google has partnered with Virgin America to provide free WiFi on every Virgin America flight between November 10, 2009 and January 15, 2010.
The inflight WiFi is provided by GOGO inflight Internet. The inflight internet works the same way that your cell phone works, picks the strongest signal cell and switching to it seamlessly.GOGO does the same for WiFi signals.

Gogo has built a mobile broadband network of ground towers covering the entire sky above the continental United States to do the same thing for a plane. Equipment onboard continuously selects the strongest connection from the towers below. With nothing but air between these towers and your plane, it's possible to get a strong connection even at 35,000 feet. Between November 10, 2009 and January 15, 2010 you can enjoy the service for free on all Virgin America flights as a holiday gift from Google.

Official Google Blog: Flying in a WiFi wonderland: Free Internet from Google on Virgin America flights