Next year Delta Airlines flyers will start noticing their sluggish inflight internet connections getting a lot faster. Delta announced on Wednesday that it is upgrading more than 250 planes that fly… Read more »
A New Yorker explainer on why the airlines want to make you suffer has been making the social media rounds. It’s an excellent case study in how the airlines have created… Read more »
Most frequent fliers in the U.S. are limited to a shared 3G connection when tapping inflight internet. AT&T proposes to boost that link to 4G speeds. Read more »
In 2015, Gogo is going international with its in-flight internet. It’s launching an all-satellite service that not only boosts speeds considerably over its current pokey ground-to-air network, but also supplies connectivity… Read more »
JetBlue may have waited to bring its inflight Wi-Fi service online, but it wanted to get it right. Today FlyFi goes live, promising customers real broadband connectivity in their plane seats. Read more »
You can use your mobile phone or tablet once the airplane door closes, but you still can’t get Wi-Fi connectivity until you’re airborne. Southwest is now lifting that restriction. Read more »
Gogo will release an app next year that will route phone calls and texts over its inflight Wi-Fi networks, even when planes are above clouds. Calls on domestic flights, however, will… Read more »
Gogo is launching a new network in 2014 that will connect airplanes at 60 Mbps. That capacity will be shared among passengers, but given Gogo’s high prices, you won’t face too… Read more »
You can complain and sulk about inflight internet all you like, but that doesn’t stop you from connecting. More flyers are buying Gogo’s services than ever before, and they’re paying even… Read more »
Accenture has followed up its investment in Apigee with a new alliance to help its big enterprise customers figure out their mobile and developer strategies. Read more »