Why In-Flight WiFi Costs You $20 for 1 Mbps!

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You are on a flight. You open your laptop. WiFi — 20 dollars. You pay. The speed? One megabit per second. Your phone on the ground gets 100 megabits for free. You are paying 20 dollars for internet that is 100 times slower than what you get at home for nothing. Why? Because at 35,000 feet, you have zero alternatives. No hotspot. No coffee shop WiFi. No switching providers. You are trapped in a metal tube with one option. Airlines know this. GoGo, the largest in-flight WiFi provider, has a monopoly on most US airlines. They charge whatever they want because competition does not exist at 35,000 feet. The satellite technology that powers airplane WiFi costs airlines about 100,000 dollars per plane per year. Split across 200 passengers per flight and hundreds of flights per year, the cost per passenger is about 50 cents. They charge you 20 dollars for a 50 cent service because the sky has no competition. Your desperation is their pricing model. Subscribe to TrueMoney.