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Skip the speed test: Viasat removes caps for BizAv connectivity

8 July 2020 By Seth Miller 1 Comment

You might think that 16 megabits per second is pretty fast for an inflight wifi connection. But Viasat wants its business aviation connectivity customers to have more than that. The company officially removed speed caps from its Ka-band contracts this week, allowing aircraft owners to access whatever is available in the network, whatever the hardware and the link budget can support.

This story is about: BizAv, business aviation, coverage maps, IFC, IFEC, in flight, in-flight connectivity, in-flight internet, inflight connectivity, Ka, Ka-band, PaxEx, Satellite, ViaSat, ViaSat-3, wifi Filed Under: IFEC

Pitching inflight wifi to NEOS: A look at the options

22 October 2018 By Seth Miller

NEOS 787 by Gianluca Borchia via Flickr/CC BY-ND https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellipticset/25311566148/

How does an airline go about comparing the inflight wifi connectivity options available on the 787 Dreamliner? Lots of contract details about pricing and delivery timeframes are certainly critical, but occasionally the data is summed up into two slides in a briefing deck. For Italian charter operator NEOS the contest settled between Viasat and Panasonic Avionics back in 2017. It appears the carrier chose neither vendor, but the summary of the positioning from the two finalists is intriguing.

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This story is about: 787, 787-9, coverage maps, Dreamliner, HTS, in-flight connectivity, in-flight internet, inflight connectivity, internet, NEOS, Newtec, Panasonic, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, ViaSat, ViaSat-3, wifi, XTS Filed Under: IFEC, PremCat, Premium

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