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Andrew@andrew.masto.host to Technology@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights

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United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights

Andrew@andrew.masto.host to Technology@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights

https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125346

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  • weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    What use is internet on a plane if you get beaten off of it by armed guards because United overbooked the flight?

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    gross. starlink is garbage and only serves to get a nazi richer.

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Good for them. I still can’t fit in their 30" pitch seats.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I want Elon musk ISP like I want him at my dinner table.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      8 months ago

      I kinda would like him at my dinner table. That way I could slap him in the face.

      • vvvvan@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        He also brought twenty armed guards (and a medic?). They ate all your food, and ruined your toilet. He made too many “jokes” about impregnating things, chuckled, and left.

    • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Such a fanboy

  • potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id
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    8 months ago

    So as a United flier(haven’t flown for two months, though), I know that they provide the following free:

    • a selection of locally hosted movies and TV shows
    • RCS, iMessage
    • Internet messaging services like meta messenger and snapchat(I can’t speak on more niche messengers like Jami or any forms of XMPP

    You have to pay extra(or sign in with t-mobile) to get in flight internet access.

    I hope that this means that you’ll get unrestricted internet access for free, instead of only a few apps and services.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Snapchat works, but messages take minutes to send and receive.

      • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        But I need them to see my dick NOW! I can’t wait a few minutes

        • HWK_290@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Dad?

          • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            *camera click

            😗🍆💦💦🌝

    • Zak@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Signal and WhatsApp work with the free messaging option. I was a little surprised by Signal.

      • potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id
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        8 months ago

        I’d have been too lol.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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        8 months ago

        IIRC telegram does as well

  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Remember when the assholes at United overbooked a flight and sent someone to knock a doctor’s teeth out and carry him off a plane? The doctor refused since he was on his way to oversee the opening of a clinic he founded for veterans.

    He and his wife started the clinic as a way to thank American servicemen and women, because he was plucked out of ocean waters by the U.S. Navy as he fled communism in his home country of Vietnam about 44 years ago, he said.

    Yeah. This will make up for it. Fuck United Airlines.

    https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/doctor-dragged-off-united-airlines-flight-watching-viral-62250271

  • eran_morad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Pass

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    For “free”

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Probably throttled for free and paid if you want the speed to stream video. Still though, I’d take that. Would be great for just checking messages and emails and stuff.

      • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        No such thing as free. It’s in the price of your ticket. And indeed the upsell potential is enormous.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    *Note: Some United flights may now divert underground to give The Boring Company more tax breaks

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    United Airlines: please forget all the bag things we’ve ever done; here’s free Internet.

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