Latest Developments in In-Flight Wi-Fi System to Fuel Growth of Global In-Flight Wi-
Fi Market
For all the woes, airlines have always delivered a brief digital detox – a valuable few time
away from the gust of messages, emails and application notification. But this won’t happen
anymore as in-flight, Wi-Fi is getting faster and cheaper, and is expanding at faster pace.
Working of In-flight Wi-Fi System
There are 2 ways to connect to a signal at 35,000 feet. One of them is through the ground-
based mobile broadband towers that delivers signals up to an airplane’s antennas, which are
generally fixed at the base of the fuselage. Another method utilizes satellite technology.
Airplanes connect to satellite in geostationary orbit that sends and receive signals to earth
through transmitters and receivers. These are satellites, which are used for transmitting
television signals, covert military operations and weather forecasting.
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The antenna installed on the plane, which connects to nearest satellite signal, is used to
transmit information from smartphones. All the information is passed through satellites from
the ground to the plane. An on-board router is used to distribute the Wi-Fi signal to plane
passengers. Considering both, the conditions, US has the more improved infrastructure than
any other economy in the world. Therefore, US carriers provides better and cheaper Wi-Fi
facility than that of in Europe.
This technology is improving at faster speed, however it has fought to keep up with the
worldliness and total number of Wi-Fi-guzzling devices. In 2008, the in-flight broadband
company, which then was named as Aircell introduced its first in-fligh Wi-Fi service on
Virgin America plane. It was delivering 3 Mbps speed, which was sufficient for few laptops,
provided that no video streaming was allowed. However, now, every passenger carrying at
least one device to connect to countless apps, services, and websites, there’s too much larger
strain on resources. Now a days, satellite connection provides nearly 12 Mbps. However,
this technology is also lagging behind as the satellites are very expensive to maintain and to
upgrade.
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Passenger’s Inclination towards Wi-Fi Enabled Aircraft to Fuel In-flight Wi-Fi Service
Market
According to the UK communications regulator Ofcom, an average internet speed in UK
houses had reached nearly 28.9 Mbps in 2016 which is far away for an airplane Wi-Fi
network to catch up. Although quality of the in-flight Wi-Fi system is developing, there are
several economies that still lack connectivity coverage, such as Oceania. It is said that the
high quality broadband service in the sky will change the experience of the passengers.
Travel time in the flight will feel shorter with the access to social media, internet, streamed
entertainment and live TV. This will act as anti-boredom to leisure passengers and for