I watched the World Cup at 35,000ft on Virgin Atlantic's new Starlink Wi-Fi — and its 120Mbps speeds were…
There is a particular kind of dread faced by soccer fans flying long-haul on the day of a big game. You take your seat and try to make peace with the fact that for the next nine hours, you will exist in an information vacuum before landing to a barrage of notifications telling you everything you spent the flight trying not to think about. So it felt like biting from forbidden fruit when, somewhere over the Atlantic and a few miles up, I was watching World Cup goals fly in — and they were live.
I was flying Virgin Atlantic's 'Fearless Lady', one of several newly-configured Airbus A350 aircraft connected to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink Wi-Fi. The flight from Orlando to London Heathrow clashed with both Uruguay vs Cape Verde and Egypt vs New Zealand.
Games for the purists, you might think? Well, both would turn out to be among...
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