I'm shocked MR doesn't charge 5 cents per post. Speaking of which, everyone who reads this know owes me $1.00
Send me your bank account number so I can deposit that $0.05
I'm shocked MR doesn't charge 5 cents per post. Speaking of which, everyone who reads this know owes me $1.00
How's this possible? iMessage requires wifi. How do you turn on wifi only for iMessage?
connected to a wifi network does not mean you are connected to the internet.
you connect to the plane's wifi network before you pay so now there will be an option on the splash screen to pay $2 and the only traffic allowed will be iMessage traffic.
I feel like this is targeted to PC owning/non-iPad owning people with iPhones so that Southwest can double-dip in the WiFi fee. You have to be out of your mind to pay the extra $2 on your iPhone in addition to your Mac/iPad when you can use iMessage on them. I love Southwest though, fly with them exclusively several times a month and always buy the $8 WiFi.
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Southwest is $8 for in-flight per device. I think that's pretty damn close to free. If you can't afford $8, there's always Spirit; what a lovely airline. :vomit:
Figure out what ports they opened up for iMessage, then open a ssh tunnel on that port so you can surf the entire internet for only $2.
$8 is not enough to pay for the bandwidth for half the plane to stream TV
$8 is not enough to pay for the bandwidth for half the plane to stream TV
Exactly
"When you look at how much we're currently paying for frequently sub-standard plane connectivity, it's easy to assume the providers are just profiteering, cashing in on those who really need to be online all the time. But the reality isn't nearly as straightforward as that.
GoGo, for instance, has an 81% market share in the US, and increased its consolidated revenue by 46%, yet still managed to post a net loss of $32.7 million. It's never made a profit, and with competition increasing, some are wondering where the money is going to come from.
Other providers are in a similar position, and it leaves them with some real problems. It's hard to justify increasing the service price even more. But they can't cut it to get the volume of customers they need, either, because their onboard systems just don't have the bandwidth to cope."
Not sure I believe that.
While that seems like a plausible reason, I would like to see some proof that providing ample bandwidth for multiple users is not commercially viable.
funny ive been able to imessage for free on southwest by connceting to the wifi and not paying. Have they blocked the imessage ports after discovering this trick?
shame lol.
Wow, really? That is terrible.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I've noticed. It sucks. It all sucks. Was just simply stating they should from my perspective, as a consumer. But obviously if I were CEO of Southwest, I'd probably lean toward more revenue-increasing policies.Ha ha. Hilarious. Haven't you noticed that airlines are unbundling every single service and charging a la carte? First food, then checked bags, then carry on bags, then nearly indistinguishable tiers of coach, then boarding privileges. Why would they reverse that trend?
Wouldn't call it free, but what is in place to stop someone from making there phone a hotspot for more devices?
send me your bank account number so i can deposit that $0.05
What a joke.
They're doing internet over a satellite link, not exactly a fat pipe.
The following article says it's currently about 3 megabits per second for the entire plane. Get a lot of people streaming video and it would all go to hell.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323864604579067473301551790
I don't get this. Every airline that I've been on that has wi-fi I've been able to iMessage.
Come on people, just be a dumb pipe, don't go and offer select services.
Wow, paying $2 to send kilobytes worth of data? I thought paying per text message was enough of a rip off.
I am pretty sure you can only create a hotspot from cellular data... not WiFi.
I predict that by mid-year next year, we'll see the legacy carriers rolling out free iMessaging and Southwest will follow suit.
Finally, somebody was complaining that there is no Netflix/Hulu blah blah blah, please tell me when the last time you used a streaming service on airplane wifi? I only use Gogo and never fly SWA so I'm curious if this has ever been allowed. Never has on Gogo (to best of my experience as longtime subscriber). That said, I'm usually more focused on coding or email churn.
I'll look around to see the real number but it's my understanding that only a few of the 737-300 jets are the only that remain that don't have wifi. I haven't had a wifi-less flight on SWA in about 8 months. The article makes it sound like there aren't many with wifi.
Last, a-list preferred members get wifi for free. It's a great perk for frequent fliers and not offered by the other airlines...
All the 737-700 and 737-800 planes have wi-fi, which is about 2/3 of their fleet. I was on a 737-500 last month that did not have wi-fi. It was my first Southwest flight in a long time without wi-fi.
I just got A-List Preferred status and am liking the perk. E-mail is a lot faster on my iPhone than Outlook on my Windows PC, so now that it's free for me I've been keeping both connected throughout the flight and leaving Outlook turned off on the PC.
Who is talking on their phone while flying?Please, everyone, do this instead of talking on your phone! I beg you.
Most phones like which ones (including iOS devices)? By default or using some sort of third-party service/app?Nope..that would not be true. Most phones can share thier internet connection whether it is cellular or not.