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IPTK price held up well so far. Willing buyers, price didn't get anywhere near 52 week low. Not yet anyway.

Here's a snippet from a Runway Girl Network article today. Emphasis is mine

But whilst advances in inflight connectivity are happening all the time — both single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft are increasingly being fitted with high-throughput modems, high-performance antennas and more reliable WAPs — the high cost of bandwidth, gaps in satellite coverage, bandwidth constraints, and other technological inhibitors mean that most widebodies flying internationally aren’t presently able to support a planeload of passengers simultaneously streaming HD content over the broadband pipe.

Not by a long shot.

In fact, anyone who regularly flies connected widebodies knows that inflight Wi-Fi is often buggy and can suffer from coverage gaps. “It’s awful. I mean the flight I took from the UK; I couldn’t get connected. It gave you the illusion that there was connectivity and that was it. And then, everything froze,” Rivada business development manager Joe Apa confided to RGN at the SATELLITE 2023 Conference and Exhibition in Washington DC, after your author shared some of her own recent experiences flying twin-aisle aircraft on international routes with inoperable Wi-Fi.

And so, with a few exceptions — such as Virgin Atlantic’s new Viasat-fitted Airbus A330neos flying within the satellite operator’s footprint across the North Atlantic corridor (which supports streaming-capable service for passengers with clear caveats) — the connected D2C/IFE paradigm on board widebodies has largely not transpired. According to AERQ head of strategy and business development Jonas von Krüchten, who serves as chair of the Airline Passenger Experience Association’s APEX Technology Committee, the ability for many passengers to stream HD content on twin-aisle aircraft is not likely to happen anytime soon.

https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2023/05/bandwidth-barriers-d2c-ife-widebodies/