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A comment on Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 Per Day.

Re:Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 P... by knodi on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:52PM (#6892364)
Free god damn wifi, its fucking 2013 and tickets cost like $300!!
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Re:Southwest Airlines Offering In-Flight iMessaging for $2 P... by encoderer on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @09:11PM (#6892435)
I believe there is some technical merit here. Bandwidth to an airplane is limited and charging a small fee keeps it from being inundated.

When it's free -- like when Google sponsors it at Christmas -- it's not usable it's so slow.

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