Gogo Expects 5G Launch in Q4
The chip needed for Gogo 5G passed “a critical design review and is now in fabrication,” with delivery anticipated midyear, Gogo said. “The critical design review was an important process and milestone before entering into the manufacturing cycle,” Mike Syverson,…
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senior vice president-engineering, said in a Wednesday news release: “Given the challenges that our supplier experienced in 2022, we felt that passing this amount of review would give us the confidence necessary to deliver 5G in 2023.” Gogo Business Aviation’s 5G service is expected to launch commercially in Q4 and provide 25 Mbps of average throughput, with peak speeds in the 75-80 Mbps range, the company said. “It has been designed to deliver high throughput with very low latency to address the increasing demand for data-heavy interactive services like video conferencing, live TV and gaming,” Gogo said.