I get asked a lot of questions of late regarding inflight Wifi, so I thought you might find my response interesting.
What you will see over the coming months as major international airlines WI-FI come back to life is, a lot of hype. Wi-Fi companies will rebrand their solutions however, a new hat on a pig, is still a pig.
There will be even more hype on the new low earth orbit satellite constellations being implemented by SpaceX, Amazon, and One Web. (A fatter pig). They operate on the same frequencies as existing WI-FI platforms and these satellites do not stand still. Although they can use the same Wi-fi installations, to deliver their service will be more complicated. While they promise data rates will increase, it just means passengers eat more data, which means more cost.
All they will achieve is make a painfully slow system faster. Even if they could deliver 100-200Mb per aircraft ( currently 15Mb), sharing that with 200-400 passengers just means a faster pig.
So when you see an article on "better or new in-flight Wi-Fi". Bear in mind it took five specialist aircraft satellite companies and two aircraft manufactures approx $10 billion and 18 years to create the current pig, and yet the best European low cost airlines in the world still don't have it. One now has fflya.
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