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Aircell: On U.S. Planes, VoIP Will Be Muted

Posted on August 26, 2008

Ever since my troublemaker friend Andy Abramson figured out a way to make VoIP calls over GoGo, the in-flight broadband system from Aircell, there has been a flurry of activity leading to the banning of some of the services Andy used.Andy s experiment came close on the heels of GoGo s commercial launch on Aug. 20 on American Airlines. When I asked an Aircell spokeswoman if this was mostly an issue of limited bandwidth availability after all, the Aircell system does rely on a cellular network she said that wasn t the case. The carriers and Aircell have taken a position on this ...

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