The New York Times’ Nick Bilton checks in on the state of in-flight Wi-Fi -- and it’s not good. “I’ve finally found something on commercial flights that’s worse than
airplane food: the Wi-Fi,” Bilton writes. “It’s so slow and unreliable that it shouldn’t be allowed to call itself ‘Wi-Fi.’ Renaming it Airplane Dial-Up would be
unfair to dial-up.” Adding insult to injury, the prices are insane. Virgin America, for example, charges $34 for a little Wi-Fi, which, as Bilton notes, “is more expensive than an entire
month of unlimited data on my cellphone.”
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