{"id":992323,"date":"2026-02-16T07:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992323"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:18:50","slug":"norwegian-air-does-not-plan-to-use-starlink-wi-fi-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/norwegian-air-does-not-plan-to-use-starlink-wi-fi-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Air does not plan to use Starlink Wi-Fi, CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian Air Shuttle does not plan to bring Starlink&#8217;s Wi-Fi onto its aircraft for now, as the budget airline offers a paid service from another vendor \u200con its flights, \u2060CEO \u2060Geir Karlsen told Reuters on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Major airlines like Lufthansa and Qatar Airways are becoming important customers for Starlink, but the product is less appealing to budget carriers that rely on ancillary services to \u2060compensate for \u200clow ticket prices. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as I know, &#8230; if you \u2060install Starlink, you&#8217;re not able to &#8230; charge for the use towards your passengers,&#8221; Karlsen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian Air Shuttle does not plan to bring Starlink&#8217;s Wi-Fi onto its aircraft for now, as the budget airline offers a paid service from another vendor \u200con its flights, \u2060CEO \u2060Geir Karlsen told Reuters on Friday. Major airlines like Lufthansa and Qatar Airways are becoming important customers for Starlink, but the product is less appealing to budget carriers that rely on ancillary services to \u2060compensate for \u200clow ticket prices. &#8220;As far as I know, &#8230; if you \u2060install Starlink, you&#8217;re not able to &#8230; charge for the use towards your passengers,&#8221; Karlsen said.<\/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-992323","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\/992323","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=992323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}