With some customer surveys indicating that passenger preference for on-board GSM connection is 97% higher than WiFi. Are airlines, that are deploying WiFi, installing a technology that is going to be Dead On Arrival?
Flightglobal Flight Daily News - 09/04/2013 digital edition has presented an opinion piece that states most passengers would prefer to connect to GSM onboard (most notably for billing ease and convenience) and that the desire for inflight SMS at 47% is higher than that of email connectivity at 42%.
So, given a choice, how would you prefer to connect onboard? With GSM and billed directly to your mobile account, or through WiFi and via a third party provider (e.g. GoGo)? Which system do you think will have higher user uptake?
Flightglobal Flight Daily News - 09/04/2013 digital edition has presented an opinion piece that states most passengers would prefer to connect to GSM onboard (most notably for billing ease and convenience) and that the desire for inflight SMS at 47% is higher than that of email connectivity at 42%.
So, given a choice, how would you prefer to connect onboard? With GSM and billed directly to your mobile account, or through WiFi and via a third party provider (e.g. GoGo)? Which system do you think will have higher user uptake?