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Prices for wifi in the plane (scoot) (lemmy.ml)
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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.