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All Flyers Will Have Free Seamless In-Flight Wi-Fi in the Future

Samantha Shankman

Photo Credit: The sign-in screen for JetBlue's new Fly-Fi service could soon be a thing of the past, says ViaSat director of mobile broadband Dom Buchman.  PlaceIt.net

Skift Take

These are the opinions of one executive at one of several in-flight Wi-Fi providers that would gain great profits from expanded in-flight connectivity. We can't take his goals as gospel, but it's a vision that all flyers would like to see actualize.

Free and seamless in-flight Wi-Fi is the future of in-flight entertainment, suggests Don Buchman, director of mobile broadband at Wi-Fi service provider ViaSat. At the launch event for JetBlue's ViaSat-powered in-flight Wi-Fi, Skift asked Buchman where he saw the service heading over the next few years as airlines invest in faster services and flyers come to expect connectivity. "Our vision is that you walk out with your device like that and you walk on [to the plane] and you don't even know that you're connected to the Internet. You just are. It'll

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