BYOD

BYOD
 n.— «Virgin America shared more details today on its partnership with in-flight wireless broadband provider AirCell—air-to-ground wireless internet will be available on all VA flights “sometime in 2008,” and will be offered two ways: BYOD (bring your own device, laptops or pdas or whatever), and also through the inflight entertainment system called Red.» —“Virgin America launches in-flight, air-to-ground broadband” by Xeni Jardin Boing Boing Sept. 13, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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