American Airline Broadband Won't Use Website Filters → AAAAAAHHH!

NETWORK NEUTRALITY, NETWORK NEUTRALITY!!

C'mon people, let's stir up some trouble, these rich corporate fat cats can't mess with our VOIP.

/sarcasm

I'm not sarcastic at all. Prohibit voice calls by creating new rules or enforcing existing rules about disturbing behavior.

Network filters all seem to have unwanted side effects -- not just technically, but on the policy side as well.

Why can't someone silently use VOIP with a Text-to-speech and a speech-to-text converter?Exactly. So let that be the natural "filter," and leave the tubes alone and uninspected!

you know what its all about. people aren't going to spend $5/minute on the airfones if they can bring a magicjack on board, thats the REAL reason voip is blocked.

"you know what its all about. people aren't going to spend $5/minute on the airfones if they can bring a magicjack on board, thats the REAL reason voip is blocked."

Airphone is dead and the handsets, if not removed have been deactivated on most planes. Obsolete technology.

Interesting in how people resent cell phones on planes when Airphones have been there for years. Of course, civility of the world has taken a downward plunge in the interim.

Part of the $5/minute cost was making sure that people wouldn't sit and gab for hours on end. With unlimited free VOIP (or cell phone rates) it becomes a free for all.

Agreed, though I do recall sitting next to one who used an Airphone for over 30 minutes. It even dropped once and they redialed and continued. Nothing critical in the conversation, just life in general. I plugged in my CD player and tuned them out.