Wi Fi on Aussie domestic??

[infinity]

Just sitting her on Wi Fi on AA flight from LAX/DFW and trawling my favourite site- AFF

Will we ever see the day that we can get WiFi on Domestic in Aust.?

 

[opusman]

Never say never, but it doesn't look like it will be any time soon.

 

[oz_mark]

Wi-fi will be there. You just won't be able to conenct to anything outside the aircraft!

 

[infinity]

Would love to know how the technology works in the USA model?

Have been able to do Skype video calls and all!

GoGo is the USA carrier

 

[chrisb]

Would love to know how the technology works in the USA model?

Essentially they've built a big 3G mobile network and pointed it at the sky instead of the ground. Presumably the bulk of it would be on existing towers, and due to the lack of terrain issues you can space them out more. There's an antenna on the bottom of the aircraft and systems onboard that then make that data available over wifi.

I'm surprised it hasn't happen here, if only on the Mel/SYD/BNE/ADL routes. They'd probably need to get virgin and qantas onboard for it to be viable but it may never happen because flights on those segments are too short for people to really demand it, and extending it across to Perth is too hard.

 

[openseat]

Essentially they've built a big 3G mobile network and pointed it at the sky instead of the ground. Presumably the bulk of it would be on existing towers, and due to the lack of terrain issues you can space them out more. There's an antenna on the bottom of the aircraft and systems onboard that then make that data available over wifi.

I'm surprised it hasn't happen here, if only on the Mel/SYD/BNE/ADL routes. They'd probably need to get virgin and qantas onboard for it to be viable but it may never happen because flights on those segments are too short for people to really demand it, and extending it across to Perth is too hard.

Especially when the vast majority of Perth flights seem to go well out into the Southern Ocean