GoGo has sewn up most of the installed inflight WiFi in the U.S. and has aims on the rest of the world, but AT&T Wireless has now announced it will go into the market next year with a different technology.
GoGo uses plane-based antennas to communicate with satellites for WiFi service; AT&T, which owns a dense ground-based cellphone network, plans to use ground-based antennas and to use 4G LTE rather than WiFi. DETAILS from Bloomberg News.
TG note: AT&T may not find an easy path to entering the market since GoGo’s connection with most major airlines is tight, and GoGo and Boeing have been discussing building the technology into the planes rather than having it added afterwards.
