FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - IFE, meals, and other flight enhancements (03/26/14 Announcement)

Mar 26, 2014 | 12:37 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BoeingBoy

In a way, it's a shame that GoGo got so much market share with what's become an inferior ground-based system. They didn't have the bandwidth for wide adoption and they control pricing much more than those companies who used satellite-based systems from the start. For example, all day access on WN is $8, on US it's $14.

Jim

I'd love to see a hundred random speed tests from GoGo ground tower flights and 100 WN Row44 flights. Looking at the WN forum one rarely(!) sees compliments about how fast and seamless is the service from Row 44.

As for bandwidth for airline streaming video, is any of that live, anyway? IIRC the GoGo service was delivering video via wifi on the on-board server.