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Old Feb 9, 2016 | 7:08 am
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Originally Posted by Often1
The WiFi doesn't cost anything, it's the cellular data which these systems use. That gets really pricey on a per transaction basis.
Huh? A credit card transaction is probably a few hundred bytes total. GoGo can get slow at times, but even the oldest GoGo installations run at 3.1Mbps, so if everyone on the plane did a credit card transaction you'd be talking about maybe 100KB or something like a third of a percent of a single second worth of the available bandwidth on the slowest GoGo installation in the fleet. Sure, if GoGo made AA pay for a full flight pass for each credit card machine this probably wouldn't be "worth it", but not because of the actual cost of the cellular data; just because AA did a bad job negotiating their integration with GoGo.
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