One of the last remaining 'dead-spots' in our Western, technology-enhanced lives is the airplane. Scheduling our travel schedules for distances that exceed that which is comfortable to drive have to account for a day capping the beginning and end of the trip for a blackout time, when you're basically off the grid - few phone calls, spotty Internet connections, and little connection to the outside world.
That is soon to change, as AirCell's SVP Tom Weigman explained to me this week. They're announcing that later this year, their inflight broadband services will be in place in American Airlines and Virgin America flights nation-wide, ending the communications blackout that is air travel.
We sat down on the Mashable Conversations podcast to talk a bit about the impact this will have, the specifics of what it'll cost, and for the truly interested, even a bit of the mechanics of how it works.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
