{"id":80816,"date":"2013-06-13T01:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jetblue-airways-updates-viasat-agreement\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:11:21","slug":"jetblue-airways-updates-viasat-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jetblue-airways-updates-viasat-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Airways Updates ViaSat Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"129\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/JetBlue.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nImage credit: Matt Hintsa\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;[Satellite TODAY 06-12-13] <b>JetBlue Airways<\/b> is more than doubling its contract commitment to $20 million for in-flight connectivity services, called Fly-Fi powered by Exede Internet, while <b>ViaSat<\/b> will bill for bandwidth charges based on the service take rate for each flight.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cA good way to characterize this amendment is that we\u2019re both putting a little more skin in the game because of our confidence that providing a really good service is going to increase the number of passengers who use it,\u201d said Mark Dankberg, ViaSat CEO and chairman. \u201cThis is a great show of JetBlue\u2019s faith in us as we complete ground testing with <b>LiveTV<\/b> and move ahead to the first flights.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Exede In The Air in-flight service for commercial aircraft uses ViaSat 1\u2019s Ka-band beam, and is capable of delivering 12 Mbps or more to each connected passenger.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partnership with LiveTV, ViaSat is already under contract to install its in-flight system onto a total of 370 aircraft, including JetBlue and one other U.S. carrier. Installations are expected to begin later this year with all aircraft scheduled to be online by the end of calendar 2015.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Matt Hintsa &nbsp;[Satellite TODAY 06-12-13] JetBlue Airways is more than doubling its contract commitment to $20 million for in-flight connectivity services, called Fly-Fi powered by Exede Internet, while ViaSat will bill for bandwidth charges based on the service take rate for each flight. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cA good way to characterize this amendment is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816"}],"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=80816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}