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In a welcome first for domestic airlines, JetBlue will be rolling outfree in-flight Yahoo IM and email services to passengers packingWiFi-equipped devices, starting aboard its new "BetaBlue" Airbus A320.Once this test-bed passenger jet reaches 10,000 feet, an in-planenetwork with three in-ceiling access points is activated, allowing mostany wireless gadget with a Flash-enabled browser to view specializedversions of either Yahoo Messenger or Mail through a universal landingpage. What's more, owners of certain BlackBerry handsets like the 8820 or Curve 8320 can keep feeding their addictions non-stop thanks to an agreement between JetBlue and RIM.
Bandwidthfor these services is provided by LiveTV, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofthe carrier that provides the entire fleet with select DirecTV and XMradio channels, and which also happens to possess a valuable 1MHz slice of ground-to-air spectrumthat it's deploying for this very purpose (with the help of some 100existing cell towers around the country). If all goes well in what isadmittedly a beta test, more aircraft will receive the WiFi makeover,and more features -- such as access to terabytes of locally-storedmultimedia content -- will be rolled out, along with additional serviceproviders besides Yahoo. Just don't expect an open pipe any time soon:that sweet little slice of spectrum is not nearly robust enough tohandle the heavy Slinging, VoIPing, and Torrenting you all wouldobviously be doing.