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NEWS| Wi-Fi: The Next Big Thing in Air Travel

Settle into your seat, open your laptop, notebook computer or high-tech phone, and spend the remaining flight hours sorting your email, keeping up with the news, discovering you could have found a flight for less than you paid, and most of the other things you do online.

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That's an increasingly likely scenario as the domestic airlines scramble to find "value added" features for their dreary and uncomfortable coach product—especially features that bring in more revenue. Onboard Wi-Fi is the new "hot" feature. All you need to use it is a computer or handheld device with Wi-Fi capability (802.11 a/b/g) plus a few bucks for the service. About the only online service you can't get—yet—is VOIP telephone.

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