Passenger Usage of Wireless Internet Increasing On Planes

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Wireless internet usage is increasing on planes. At present about 1700 planes in the US give access to internet. Carriers like Virgin America and AirTran have internet access on its entire fleet, whereas Delta Air Lines has internet access on its domestic flights.
According to flight carriers the percentage of travelers paying for wireless internet on flights is increasing, buoyed partly by the growing popularity of tablets and iPads and partly because of internet access in more and more planes. As of now 8 out of 100 passengers use the service as against 4 such passengers in 2010.According to In-Stat, a research firm, this figure is likely to reach 10 out of 100 passengers by the year end.
According to Virgin Airlines, popular activities include downloading of e-books, updating Facebook and real time tracking of flight. As people's expectation on availability of Wi-Fi keeps growing they start expecting it everywhere and do not hesitate to pay for it. However the value that they assign to the facility is not in alignment with the current pricing.
As of now Gogo Inc., service providers for Delta, Virgin America and other carriers charges prices ranging from around $5 for a one and half hour flight to close to $ 40 for a month long unlimited pass. Southwest Airlines, which gets its internet services from Row 44 Inc., has a fixed introductory rate of $5 per flight.

Wireless Internet is Now Going to go 5G According to Some Experts!

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As people shift slowly to the 4G wireless internet network that has just come up, cellular companies are now thinking of going 5G. The 4G wireless internet network is no longer able to handle the traffic that is coming because of soaring tablet and smartphone sales.
Industry analysts say that by 2020, the amount of cellular traffic created in the wireless internet network by smartphones and tablets will come into collision by the traffic generated from the world of connected "things". Everything will be on the wireless internet network. This will prove to be bad because these wireless carriers are hitting a point of diminishing returns on their network efficiency improvements.
If you look at LTE-Advanced; it is the next big thing after 4G wireless internet. Mainly, it can give seeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, which is about 10 times that of current 4G networks. But in the real-world scenario, LTE-A will only deliver speeds of up to 15 megabits per second which will be a little faster than the 12 megabits per second that 4G networks currently offer. According to Tod Sizer, head of wireless research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, 5G wireless internet will not be about speed necessarily. It will be about meeting the service quality. He also said that since 2G was about voice, 3G was about data and 4G is about video; he predicted 5G wireless internet to be about intelligent networks that can handle billions of connected devices and remain stable and operational.

Internet Pharmacies In Canada Probed By US Authorities For Counterfeit Drug Scam

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Authorities in the US are looking into the dealings of two internet pharmacies with connections in Winnipeg in the fake drug scam concerning Avastin. The scandal involves Avastin's cancer fighting properties being interchanged with cleaning products.
The internet companies which are being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration are, CanadaDrugs.com owned by Kris Thorkelson and another internet pharmacy owned by his brother-in-law Thomas Haughton.

The charges against the companies are distributing the counterfeit drug presumably sourced from China. Authorities believe that the internet pharmacies unwittingly imported the drugs and distributed them resulting in the scam. However the investigation is sure to throw light on the zigzag path fake drugs take when imported by internet pharmacies for sale in the US as in the case of Avastin. The investigators revealed in such situations it was difficult to pin point the source country for the fake drug.

According to the Wall Street Journal, a possible route being investigated by the authorities for the fake Avastin, is a trail passing through Turkey and Egypt, into the hands of Danish and Swiss distributors and then to agents of Haughton in England and finally through the accused internet pharmacies, to 19 health dispensaries mainly in California and some in Texas.