After criticism from customer American Airlines about access speeds, Gogo is buying more bandwidth from Intelsat and OneWeb.
Beginning in 2016, Gogo will expand its use of the Intelsat Globalized Network by purchasing additional capacity on Intelsat’s Ku-band infrastructure, a contiguous, resilient network within Intelsat’s 50 satellite system which covers 99 percent of the world’s populated regions.
In 2019, Gogo will use OneWeb capacity as well.
The initial upgrade will support as much as 250 Mbps per plane on the Intelsat EpicNG fleet.
One Web’s Low Earth Orbit satellites are expected to be the first satellites to enable high performance services at high latitudes and on polar flights.
Access to such resources is one reason why mobile interests and satellite interests frequently clash over spectrum allocation. The Gogo application, as do OneWeb applications, illustrate a few of the “niche” apps satellite is best positioned to provide.
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