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New Alliance Wants to Improve Terrible In-Flight Internet

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-are-the-ping-times? dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Things may be looking up for internet access on board commercial aircraft in the future.

The frustrations of internet access aboard commercial aircraft may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to the Seamless Air Alliance. Formed by Airbus, Delta, OneWeb, Sprint and Airtel, the group aims to improve the connectivity experience for passengers aboard aircraft by allowing mobile operators to provide internet access directly via satellite tech.

The group aims to reduce the costs and headaches associated with the installation and operation of the infrastructure required to provide connectivity on aircraft. The end goal is to work together to cut costs and provide passengers with fast, reliable internet onboard aircraft. It would combine higher speeds with a better user experience because passengers wouldn't have to pay separately for internet access once on board.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:00PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:00PM (#644630) Journal

    When do they want users to pay? Included in the ticket price?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:29PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:29PM (#644643)

    This ought to be the case, and it ought to get you just one thing: better QoS priority for your packets

    More likely, it'll be like checking extra baggage. That keeps the list price (as seen on ticket web sites) lower.

    Set the price by Swiss auction, with the number of winners being the most for which some level of "good" service can be provided, and set the expectation of "good" so that it is about 5% of the passengers on a typical flight. Hopefully this would allow the paying people to do videoconferencing and gaming, while everybody else gets a connection that is mostly good enough for web browsing. The non-paying people probably get nothing if all the paying people simultaneously max out their shares of the connection, but that'd seldom happen.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:39PM (#644715)

      The non-paying people probably get nothing if all the paying people simultaneously max out their shares of the connection, but that'd seldom happen.

      I'll take that bet, the internet generation is well into their 40s! The 20-somethings will be doing lots of business travel soon enough and I bet they'll prefer to browse the net instead of watch in-flight movies.