{"id":6155,"date":"2007-12-06T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/jetblue-wifi.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:03:38","slug":"jetblue-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/jetblue-wifi.html","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/blackberry-9000.jpg\" \/>Although I am disappointed by JetBlue&rsquo;s decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/12\/06\/3147234.htm\">allow<\/a> e-mail access only via a Yahoo! account and a Blackberry device (<strong>update<\/strong>: the service will also work with laptops) I am extremely happy to hear that at least e-mail will now be available while in-flight. And best of all, this service will be free!<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Many executives have told me they don&rsquo;t want e-mail access on United States flights because the plane is the last place where you can officially be offline and no one will fault you for it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I always took the opposite side of this argument.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I must admit however that the airplane is where I write many of my articles and blogs. It looks like I will have to find a new quiet place in which to concentrate on writing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Then again, unless the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/blackberry-9000-the-real-iphone-killer.html\">Blackberry 9000<\/a> is as good as I hope I may not be switching to a RIM device anyway&hellip; So I don&rsquo;t need to worry about any of this. Oh, and did I mention I rarely fly JetBlue anyway?<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">So for me this presents an interesting dilemma&hellip; Do I switch devices so I can communicate while flying? I must admit the prospect is tempting. More to come on this as my subconscious evaluates. Would you switch?<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">See Also: <\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Tom Keating: <a title=\"JetBlue offering free WiFi in the Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/wireless\/jetblue-offering-free-wifi-in-the-sky.asp\">JetBlue offering free WiFi in the Sky<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">MSNBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22133691\/\">In-flight Wi-Fi &mdash; for free<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I am disappointed by JetBlue&rsquo;s decision to allow e-mail access only via a Yahoo! account and a Blackberry device (update: the service will also work with laptops) I am extremely happy to hear that at least e-mail will now be available while in-flight. And best of all, this service will be free! &nbsp; Many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}