Boeing cuts inflight broadband

Boeing has decided to stop offering their inflight broadband Internet service called ‘Connexion’. Delivered via satellite to airlines that signed up to the service, it apparently cost over US $1b to create, was costing millions to run each year, but was not attracting enough customers. Other companies are planning to offer inflight broadband Internet, but aren’t ready to start yet. Apparently the decision had nothing to do with the recent terrorist scare in the UK which caused laptop computers (other gadgets, liquids and virtually everything else) to be banned from the cabin of certain aircraft travelling on routes to the US around the world.