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Old May 8, 2023 | 3:07 pm
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Originally Posted by nmenaker
email and some stock trading, plus loading some apps, CNBC and BLOOMBERG, wouldn’t load at all. Tried to VPN as well, didn’t work. ...
realtime apps are pushing the capabilities for the older panasonic system as UA notes. streaming like operation is not supported presently.

Originally Posted by nmenaker
As for STARLINK, I thought someone maybe it was Hawaiian signed up I think more than a year ago to use it fleetwide, not sure how the progress has been.
Don't beleive it is worldwide yet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starli...val_by_country

The European ViaSAT is in orbit, not yet operational and the Asia ViaSat is scheduled for last 2023/early 2024. UA has not announced the replacement plans for Panasonic ViaSAT3 allows full streaming
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