Money talks - business people depend on being able to do work while flying, and many of them represent these 10K+ F and C fares. If laptops are banned, the loss of revenue to the airlines will force a change or compromise.

If this article is true, I am really shocked - totally shocked - that Boeing engineers would have permitted the two logical networks to coexist on the same physical cabling. Totally, 1,000% inexcusable - and I don't care how much weight they saved by doing it this way.