Thursday, September 21, 2006
You may remember a while back that we reported on Boeings plans to ditch their Connexion In-flight Hi-Speed Internet service. Well it now appears that Panasonic may be willing to pick up the slack, offering a similar, lower cost service than the one that was previously being offered by Boeing.
"They're not looking at taking over the Boeing service, but claim they've figured out a way to use a similar approach so that they can easily switch existing Connexion-outfitted planes to their own service. Panasonic is using the death of Connexion smartly for their own marketing efforts, asking airlines that currently use the system to commit to switch over within 60 days, to avoid any downtime for fliers."
You can read the full article by clicking on the link below.
"They're not looking at taking over the Boeing service, but claim they've figured out a way to use a similar approach so that they can easily switch existing Connexion-outfitted planes to their own service. Panasonic is using the death of Connexion smartly for their own marketing efforts, asking airlines that currently use the system to commit to switch over within 60 days, to avoid any downtime for fliers."
You can read the full article by clicking on the link below.





