{"id":212060,"date":"2010-01-22T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=93234"},"modified":"2010-01-22T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:02:01","slug":"aircell-gets-176-million-for-in-flight-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212060","title":{"rendered":"Aircell Gets $176 Million for In-flight Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Aircell<\/a>, the Itasca, Ill. company behind the wildly hyped\u00a0GoGo<\/a> in-flight broadband<\/a>, has raised $176 million in funds from an undisclosed group of investors. (Don’t worry — we asked, but they wouldn’t tell us who invested in the company.) The funds will be used for network expansion, among other things.<\/p>\n

GoGo, which is\u00a0currently\u00a0available on more than 700 commercial aircraft, and has commitments from a total of nine airlines, needs to build out its network aggressively if it wants hype to meet<\/del> match reality. As it has grown, GoGo’s connection quality has declined<\/a> as the strain on its network has gone up\u00a0because\u00a0of increased usage.<\/p>\n

In many ways, the hype around GoGo has met reality. The uptake of the service<\/a> is pretty low at present. Some say it might be as low as six users per flight<\/a>. I think the pricing has something to do with the reason why many travelers<\/a> are not so keen on paying for in-flight broadband just yet. The low uptake might be the reason why Aircell is figuring out<\/a> a way to sell the service to the carriers itself for more backend functions. The good news — if you can call it that — is that the competing Row44 service (on Southwest) is actually worse off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Aircell, the Itasca, Ill. company behind the wildly hyped\u00a0GoGo in-flight broadband, has raised $176 million in funds from an undisclosed group of investors. (Don’t worry — we asked, but they wouldn’t tell us who invested in the company.) The funds will be used for network expansion, among other things. GoGo, which is\u00a0currently\u00a0available on more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}