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Wait so you pay a lot of money to fly, then need to pay for wifi too? Is this the year 2005?!
Some airlines offer free wifi, but the ticket prices are usually higher. There's definitely a pretty large cost to offer wifi on an airplane. Most of it these days is satellite based, and there are large antennas on top of the airplane in a dome shaped structure. This increases drag requiring a slight increase in fuel burn. Over time that adds up. The prices here do seem high, considering you only get a small amount of bandwidth. The 80MB option can be blown through just by viewing photos.
Should be traffic shaping instead of data caps.
One can text at 50kib/s and the other can stream at 2 mbit/s or something like that.
Well yes. It really depends how your ISP sells you the service and how you resell the service.
Wasn't aware how small the bandwidth is. Neat to know
Infrastructure for Internet access on a plane is very expensive and low-bandwidth so this is not surprising
Scoot is one of the cheapest flights in mainly south east asian region. They are in pair with ryanair in cheapness and low quality service.
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Oh okay thanks, had no idea. :-)