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Old Oct 12, 2020 | 3:38 pm
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Originally Posted by mduell
These are the same system, just slightly different generations of hardware. LiveTV (now owned by Thales) provides the aircraft side hardware, and ViaSat operates the satellite. The expanded coverage is due to support for ViaSat-2, instead of just ViaSat-1.
Thanks for that. I did not know that it was just a progression of the same service.

In any case, in my experience, the ViaSat systems are much more reliable than the older Thales systems in our 737s.
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