Travel Is Your Business

The real story behind WiFi on flights with Viasat… Chris Dankberg, who runs Partnerships for Viasat (a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected) joins John Matson and Bess Chapman in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser. In this episode: How Viasat is about solving really hard problems Why WiFi is slow on flights Prior to 5 years ago,ViaSat was about WiFi via satellite for government and private air services People got used to texting and checking sites that were urgent for destination (weather, hotels, etc.) The growth of market for Viasat’s tech , high capacity satellites over different frequency bands enabled differently, market wasn’t ready Why WiFi on planes is so expensive Allocating capacity on an as-needed basis Unprecented bandwidth economics The abiity that you could hand off seamlessly from ground to air started being palatable The opportunity waited for Viasat to launch a satellite Demand wasn’t forecasted correctly, so ther