Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi.
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi. Even the Amazon’s most remote villages have high-speed internet, but for years, the typical in-flight connectivity experience could have been best summed up by the aviation Reddit thread titled “WiFi horrible?”Now major airlines have started rolling out Wi-Fi that is both free and usable. In June, United announced that by the end of this year, nearly 1,000 of its planes would be getting high-speed Wi-Fi via Starlink, the network of low-Earth-orbit satellites owned by SpaceX.
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- This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi.
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Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone
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