{"id":71834,"date":"2016-02-23T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-wins-contract-for-connectivity-on-qantas-domestic-fleet\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T15:12:00","slug":"viasat-wins-contract-for-connectivity-on-qantas-domestic-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-wins-contract-for-connectivity-on-qantas-domestic-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Wins Contract for Connectivity on Qantas Domestic Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite&nbsp;02-23-2016] <strong>ViaSat<\/strong> has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement with <strong>Qantas Airways<\/strong>, Australia\u2019s largest domestic and international airline, to provide In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) to Qantas passengers on its domestic flights. The agreement with Qantas represents the broadband company\u2019s first Asia-Pacific airline to select its in-flight Internet service, as well as the first airline in the region to choose its single, hybrid Ku\/Ka-band antenna.<\/p>\n<p>The new service expects to feature speeds that are up to 10 times faster than traditional global ground-based in-flight Internet services and access streaming video. Additionally, by using ViaSat\u2019s hybrid Ku\/Ka band antenna, the Internet service will operate across both ViaSat\u2019s global Ku-band network and <strong>NBN<\/strong>\u2018s Sky Muster high-capacity Ka-band satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the MOU, in-flight Internet trials will begin in late 2016 on Qantas\u2019 <strong>Boeing<\/strong> 737 aircraft. A full roll-out across the Qantas domestic fleet of A330s and Boeing 737s is planned to begin in 2017, with aircraft to be outfitted with in-cabin Wi-Fi hotspots, an Internet modem and ViaSat\u2019s satellite antenna and radome technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite&nbsp;02-23-2016] ViaSat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement with Qantas Airways, Australia\u2019s largest domestic and international airline, to provide In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) to Qantas passengers on its domestic flights. The agreement with Qantas represents the broadband company\u2019s first Asia-Pacific airline to select its in-flight Internet service, as well as the first airline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}