Porn Filters on in-Flight Wi-Fi May Be Just the Start
But hands-on management wouldn't work for another problem that is bound to come up with in-flight Wi-Fi, said analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates. Because of the thin cellular-data pipe that passengers will be sharing, airlines will have to be prepared to throttle back heavy users, he said. One person trying to download a movie all through a flight could ruin the access others paid for.
Airlines are likely to guard against this in an automated way, Gold said.
"The flight crew are not going to be IT managers. The policies are going to have to be set and uploaded to the systems," Gold said.
As for censorship, Gold said travelers should expect to see the same controls imposed on in-flight Wi-Fi from a given country's carrier as they do on Internet service providers on the ground there.
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