Delta Air Lines has made an exciting announcement when it comes to inflight Wi-Fi today, which moves the airline one stop closer to offering free connectivity.
Continue reading: Major: Delta Transitioning To Viasat Inflight Wi-Fi
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For those of us with T-Mobile, we will now go from one hour free on delta to 0 hours free on delta 🙁
As with most things that are "free", the quality will suffer. There is a limited bandwidth and if they don't have to pay, people will waste it on nonsense. Then people who were willing to pay and had to use it for work have crap internet
Here is an idea: offer free wifi for certain passengers, such as elites and first class passengers. Gives elites another perk, and another incentive to purchase first class.
One of my favorite T-Mobile perks is about to (slowly) become redundant. That said, I'm NEVER leaving Delta, so hopefully TM fills the gap somehow.
Disclosure: I work at Viasat
While it's true that bandwidth is a finite resource, Viasat KA band - given the right weather conditions - offers significantly more bandwidth than traditional KU band that Gogo utilizes. While the new contract seems to be for KA band-only, Viasat also offers KuKa (both KA and KU bands) that can alleviate weather restrictions as well.
IFC has a lot of work to become as consistent as cellular or broadband/fiber, but I truly believe Viasat offers the best product and service in the segment, and am glad to see my company partner with Delta, which is my favorite domestic airline.
Well there goes my t-mobile perk. No more free WiFi. I hope they offer free WiFi soon through someone else that airlines actually use.
Once spaceX gets its complete constellation done of 12,000 satellites you will see most airlines Wi-Fi using that.
Another area where Delta is attempting to copy JetBlue. JetBlue has been offering free, fast, streaming quality wifi for years. Delta is finally trying to catch up, and not even on its whole fleet.
@Jay Ralston: The same JetBlue "copied" Delta by launching flights to London? Or "copied" American by launching Mint on transcontinental flights? :rolleyes:
And in other news Delta is considering installing the latest in personal entertainment, a private VHS player at all seats!
ViaSat is a dead man walking, with Elon Musk rolling out StarLink all of their extremely dissatisfied customers are going to run away fast. ViaSat is a company you use because you have to, not because you like their products.
@J I would say that I feel for you working at that turd company, but I don't. Lifetip: Start looking for a new job fast, you are going to need it. You are not even a good buggy whip manufacturer, and the Model T of satellite internet is about to run you over.
I can confirm that the Viastat service isn't all that much better, I was just on a flight to DC in a 321 it's still sluggish and affected by use, the horrible latency of Viastat is very apparent. I'd rather have my T-Mobile connection over Gogo. Starling would definitely be an upgrade once they are fully up
Viasat is a bust. No seamless access via Delta WiFi. Have to get out my CC and fumble through process and typing in same info every time. Not any better than gogo and in this respect much worse. I don't need it to be free, I need it to be easy.
Yes but you have to take 5-10 minutes to punch in credit card in every time. Delta has more personal info on me than my spouse. Seems like a disjointed business relationship that they don't link a few things.
Not happy Delta cut tmobile relationship with this “enhancement”. I selected tmobile more than a year ago to pair w Delta. Their miles program continues to devalue points every year and I hope they aren’t trying to create rev here w INet. Off to a bad start so far.
The new Viasat service for free Delta wifi is not good. I never had issues until now. I would rather pay and not have issues versus not being able to connect at all to imessage. It is very frustrating.