How Starlink and Others are Going to Supercharge Airplane Wi-Fi | WSJ

Buffering, error messages, dropped connections. In-flight Wi-Fi stinks. But that’s about to change thanks to new low-earth orbit satellite technology.

WSJ’s Joanna Stern found out why planes still use old 3G tech and tested Elon Musk’s Starlink and Intelsat’s low-earth orbit satellite tech from 30,000 feet.

Chapters:
0:00 In-flight Wi-Fi
1:14 The old cellular tech
4:16 The new Starlink tech
5:49 The perfect LEO + GEO satellite combo
7:46 Other in-flight Wi-Fi answers

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