{"id":1000391,"date":"2026-04-01T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000391"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:51:40","slug":"amazon-delta-team-up-for-in-flight-wi-fi-challenging-musks-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/amazon-delta-team-up-for-in-flight-wi-fi-challenging-musks-starlink\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Delta team up for in-flight Wi-Fi, challenging Musk&#8217;s Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL: Amazon&#8217;s Leo satellite internet unit signed a deal with Delta Air Lines to provide in-flight Wi-Fi on 500 of the airline&#8217;s planes starting in 2028, inking its second major partnership in the skies as it races to launch more satellites and take on Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink. <\/p>\n<p>The deal ratchets up competition between Amazon&#8217;s burgeoning satellite internet service and Starlink for \u200ca slice of \u2060the in-flight \u2060Wi-Fi market, even as Musk&#8217;s satellite network remains far ahead in its satellite deployment and global service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL: Amazon&#8217;s Leo satellite internet unit signed a deal with Delta Air Lines to provide in-flight Wi-Fi on 500 of the airline&#8217;s planes starting in 2028, inking its second major partnership in the skies as it races to launch more satellites and take on Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink. The deal ratchets up competition between Amazon&#8217;s burgeoning satellite internet service and Starlink for \u200ca slice of \u2060the in-flight \u2060Wi-Fi market, even as Musk&#8217;s satellite network remains far ahead in its satellite deployment and global service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}