GoGo To Offer In-Flight Movies On the back of in-flight broadband service... The majority of in-flight broadband service is now being provided by Aircell. Aircell offers the service via the GoGo brand, which offers flyers $7.95 for smart phone access on flights of any length, $9.95 for regular access on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours. According to ComputerWorld, the company hopes to launch an in-flight movie download service sometime this year. Like most carriers, Aircell wants a slice of the content revenue traveling over their network. But to get it -- they'll need to offer a service that's better than what's out there, with small enough file sizes to make downloading in flight efficient. Roughly pricing estimates peg the service at around $2 to $4 for a TV show or movie.
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 | | why not just have in flight direct tv like other airlines? why not just have in flight direct tv like other airlines? | |
| | | The Movies are Probably Cached on Shipboard Servers I presume that they will cache most of the films on a harddrive on board and control the security and authentication via EVDO.
The funny thing is that my wife is Diamond Medallion and I am Silver Medallion on Delta (flying mostly former NWA flights). We haven't run into a GoGo equipped flight yet. In the last six months, I've flown from DTW to Europe, Trinidad, Florida, New Mexico, Minneapolis, and Chicago. I've been looking (mostly out of curiosity). My wife's list of places is more extensive, but she probably wasn't looking as hard. | |
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Newark, NJ | Re: The Movies are Probably Cached on Shipboard Servers That would make sense, but the movies don't necessarily have to be cached in order to work. I tried gogo on a delta flight earlier in the year when it was free. The service had really good latency, and high throughput (several megabits) during the entire flight.
I suspect this could support several dozen simultaneous SD streams per plane. | |
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Newark, NJ | $7.95 P.S. If you are even mildly tech savvy, the rate is really $7.95 per flight of any length. Sign up with your smartphone for $7.95, then clone the MAC onto your PC wifi card.
--or-- just pass along smartphone browser headers to the captive portal | |
| | | | Re: $7.95 And remember to unclone the Mac addresses when you get to your hotel (and to turn your phone's wifi off while pulling this hack off). Things get ugly when two devices with the same Mac address try to coexist on the same network. | |
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