``The FCC approved a wireless Internet offering from Boeing Co. that uses satellites to get air travelers online. Boeing`s Connexion service is offered by some international carriers, including on some flights to the United States.

Domestic carriers have shied away from it in large part because of the cost of outfitting planes with the technology, estimated to be about $500,000 a plane.

Currently, the only way passengers on domestic flights can communicate with the ground is through phones typically built into seatbacks. That service isn`t very popular: It costs far more than conventional or cell phones and the reception often is poor.``

SGE has there been an auction yet ?....Or are they waiting for other license approvals for a competitive auction ?

doni