Regardless, the previously installed Airfone infrastructure is being used for easy installation of the Tenzing system. In April, Tenzing plans to provide a LAN-based service for another airline. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways wants to enable 62 of its aircraft to provide 1.5 megabits per second access from LAN connections at passenger seats. One difference between Tenzing's two clients is that Air Canada manually loads the Web cache on each airplane, while Cathay Pacific uses wireless LANs to transmit data to its planes. A service called the Connexion will furnish television, e-mail, and Web access using broadband satellites.
Unregistered travelers can check flight status and availability using the service.
Recently, United saw an increase in usage of its Proactive Paging Service, which alerts travelers of flight delays and changes in real-time. Now that's wireless convenience. Back to Top Simplifying Wireless Searches By Michael Cohn Searching for wireless Internet sites is not easy from a mobile phone, which is one reason that many users never go to sites that aren't listed on their carrier's menu. Vendors like RealNames and Pinpoint are trying to change that. On Wednesday, RealNames announced a partnership with VoiceStream that will allow keyword navigation to be used to access sites on the wireless Net.