I’m just curious what the bottlenecks are and what has been done to improve those. Because I remember when it would take 10 seconds to send an imessage and now I can watch YouTube when my connection is solid. Just impressive and I’m curious about it.
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It’s not so much about technological improvements (though of course there’s always those) so much as an investment. Planes use satellite feeds to enable internet and that shit’s expensive, both installation and bandwidth rental
But some airlines (jetblue in particular) made that investment, thinking their customers would see available internet on their flights as a valuable perk over their competitors and..they were right.
So over the years other airlines have made that investment to add and improve their service. There hasn’t been substantial and major breakthroughs technology-wise in the last few years. Mostly just airlines competing with each other realizing that if you’re going to be stuck in a box for several hours, having some connection to the outside world is a valuable feature for their customers, and no one airline wants to be the one with no, or worse, internet.
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