Fast Company cites “new hope” for in-flight Internet

Alison Overholt reports in the Feb 2007 issue of Fast Company magazine (Web access requires code from page 10 of print mag) that there is hope after the folding of our beloved Connexion service. Two new services are emerging.

“Australian startup ASiQ is shopping around an on-board antenna system weighing just 66 pounds with a mercifully lighter $60,000 price tag…Saudi Airlines will introduce the service in late 2007.”

AND:

“AirCell will operate a series of base stations–just like mobile-phone companies–and equip planes with an “antenna about the size of a Coke can…The network will launch late next year or early 2008.”