[ravenstine]

Wi-Fi has already been a thing on planes for years, and has been good enough for me to watch high quality YouTube videos and attend Zoom meetings. Not a single family member or friend whom I've enlightened about this has bothered to use the internet on a plane flight, even when it's free. It's going to take at least a decade before the old habit will be replaced with the new one.

[dbbk]

Not only that, the EU has now mandated that all planes support 5G on passengers' phones directly.

[ravenstine]

No idea how that would work, and I imagine airlines would push back against this (how would they capitalize on this without raising ticket prices?), but it would be awesome if this happens.

[dbbk]

The deadline for implementation has passed, all the planes had to have the equipment added to support it. I'm not sure if any airlines have turned on the service yet though.

[cmrx64]

Computer bad. Phone bad. But small airplane screen? Small airplane screen novel and good.