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Free Public WiFi on a plane?

March 31, 2010 by Wayne Small 3 Comments

Recently whilst on a trip to the USA from Sydney, I was at 10,000m and had just crossed the International Date line on the flight from Sydney to LA. There were about 6 hours to go in the flight and I’d just noticed that my wireless was turned on – opps forgot to switch it off.  Lucky the plane had not crashed 🙁

What’s more though is that I’ve noticed it’s telling me there are other networks to connect to – see the picture below.

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Hmm – something tells me that Free Public WiFi is NOT going to be on a Qantas plane… I think it’s time to turn off my wifi card and leave it to someone else to fall for this trick 🙂

How do you train your customers about the falsehoods and tricks out there? How do you get them to understand the difference from good vs bad?

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  1. Simon says

    March 31, 2010 at 9:00 am

    Explanation here: http://www.wlanbook.com/free-public-wifi-ssid/

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