Internet soon to be free and unlimited on all airplanes!
This page is translated from the original post "Internet bientôt gratuit et illimité dans tous les avions !" in French.
- 14/09/2024 9:18
The American company United Airlines now offers its passengers free WiFi Internet thanks to Elon Musk’s Starlink.
With his head in the clouds and eyes on the Internet, magician Elon Musk has struck again! Starting next year, United Airlines will offer free in-flight WiFi on planes equipped with the Starlink service, which uses SpaceX satellites to connect to the Internet. United plans to roll out Starlink WiFi across its entire fleet of over 1,000 aircraft in the coming years. It follows in the footsteps of smaller airlines Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue, which also provide free in-flight connectivity in the United States, as well as the Latvian airline AirBaltic in Europe.
“Everything you can do on the ground, you will soon be able to do on a United Airlines flight at 35,000 feet (10,000 m), pretty much anywhere in the world,” said United CEO Scott Kirby, “It’s really like being in your living room.”
High-speed Internet
This technology is not new, of course, as according to the FAA, nearly one in five travelers in the United States already connects to in-flight WiFi. However, until now, airlines offering free WiFi to all passengers without conditions were relatively rare and reserved this service for upper-class passengers. For others, it required an average payment of 10 to 50 euros for a very unreliable connection. The reason is simple: before Starlink, satellite internet was extremely expensive and technologically too limited to seamlessly track an aircraft moving at 800 km/h. Elon Musk decided to democratize this service and with the help of hundreds of launched satellites, he met the challenge brilliantly. Better yet, this system doesn’t require any ground relays, making the Internet, and therefore knowledge, accessible to people all over the globe with a simple small suitcase. Perhaps Elon Musk’s greatest contribution to humanity, yet completely unnoticed behind Tesla and SpaceX… The fate of great men.
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