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If you follow Twitter and Facebook, you might notice an odd phenomenon lately. People you know are mid-flight, or who mention that they’re mid flight, are, well announcing that they’re mid-flight. For essentially all of aviation’s history, passengers have had no access to communications services. A few airlines have allowed (expensive) calling services, but that’s about it. Even as cell phones became more popular, they simply were not, and are not, allowed on commercial flights. But now many carriers are offering Wi-Fi connections on flights. That means that we can use our smartphones, while in airplane mode, and laptops while we’re hurtling through the air at several hundred miles per hour. Before you go and book your airline tickets, make sure to check out this list of carriers that offer in-flight Wi-Fi.

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One of the biggest obstacles of bringing your laptop on a business trip can be finding a spot to connect to WiFi, especially if you aren’t in one of the top airports that caters to tech savvy travelers. Even if you do end up in one of the more tech friendly airports, you may run into the following WiFi problems:
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What is Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)? Digital Subscriber Line is a technology for bringing high-speed and high-bandwidth, which is directly proportional to the amount of data transmitted or received per unit time, information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines already installed in hundreds of millions of homes and businesses worldwide. With DSL, consumers and businesses take advantage of having a dedicated, always-on connection to the Internet.
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