Skype Air Heads
Last week in a place far from home I heard a wonderful Skype story of one upmanship. Folks I'm sorry to tell you that 35000 Ft Skype calls to grounded companions is now passe. Two Skypers whose names rang true when this VC told me the story (nameless unless they want to come forward) were some of the first to Skype plane to plane. Now that's putting new meaning and use to aerial hotspots. What happens when planes are full of web cam enabled Skypers? Will they want social networking services that connect people while flying to a destination so they can connect as soon as they land? Combine it all and we'll have matching long haul destinations and Skype voyerism.... Another one of those un intended consequences.
If you've Skyped plane to plane let us know. Now I'm just waiting for five planes to be connected in a head in the clouds conference. How long will it take? Our thanks to Boeing Connexion and Skype for making it all possible.
Comments
If we are all able to use skype on planes does that mean that the airlines will have to have a special 'quiet zone' on the plane, like they do on a lot of trains now so that people who want to relax in peace and quiet can.
Posted by: s1n | June 24, 2005 04:18 AM
What I find amusing is Boeing had no inkling that they were going to add phones to every seat when they added Wi-Fi to planes. I'm sure they just thought people would browse and use e-mail. Quiet zones may well become important.
Posted by: Stuart Henshall | June 24, 2005 05:35 PM
i am sure boeing thought about VOIP when they installed wifi in their planes. They just figured out that their 10USD/second air phone was not profitable enough and that they had better have 100 personns paying 20USD wifi rather than nothing at all
Posted by: ouriel | June 26, 2005 07:45 AM
I think that they should definetely have that quiet zone like they have smoking and no smoking.
Posted by: Air Ambulance | December 4, 2005 08:46 AM
But what about safety. It wasn't possible before because of the safety reasons. Am I wrong?
Posted by: ambulance doc | January 14, 2006 02:29 PM
I really don't know why wifi is OK in the air but mobile phone signals aren't. Is in-flight bluetooth OK?
Posted by: Phil Wolff | January 14, 2006 11:49 PM
You are right on the money with this one. Well said!
Isaac Marowitz
http://www.airambulancechoice.com
Posted by: Isaac Marowitz | May 3, 2006 04:25 AM