Southwest ups bandwidth with new WiFi agreements
Southwest is improving Internet service on its flights with two new WiFi agreements. The airline said it signed a new connectivity agreement with Panasonic Avionics and extended an agrement with its existing provider Global Eagle Entertainment to offer faster Internet service on Boeing 737 aircraft. Both providers use satellites to provide Internet service to aircraft as opposed to air-to-ground technology. By the middle of 2017, customers will be able to surf the web at 37,000 feet three to four times faster than the current speed, said Ryan Green, Southwest’s vice president of marketing. “We want to improve the amount of bandwidth that they have access to while they are in flight,” Green said.<br/>
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Southwest ups bandwidth with new WiFi agreements
Southwest is improving Internet service on its flights with two new WiFi agreements. The airline said it signed a new connectivity agreement with Panasonic Avionics and extended an agrement with its existing provider Global Eagle Entertainment to offer faster Internet service on Boeing 737 aircraft. Both providers use satellites to provide Internet service to aircraft as opposed to air-to-ground technology. By the middle of 2017, customers will be able to surf the web at 37,000 feet three to four times faster than the current speed, said Ryan Green, Southwest’s vice president of marketing. “We want to improve the amount of bandwidth that they have access to while they are in flight,” Green said.<br/>
