New highspeed internet

[funcky]

Just read articles on Yahoo regarding Carnival plan for new high speed internet. This supposed to make it run 10 times faster. No details on when or which ships will get this. Any inside info, please share.:)

[BigDoug]

Here is what I found online.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-03/carnival-wants-to-make-onboard-wifi-worth-the-high-price

 

The largest cruise line, Carnival (CCL), says it has a solution for this mess: a new “smart hybrid” mix of technologies that will offer speeds 10 times faster than current ship connections by merging a variety of wireless signals such as satellite, long-range Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi from ports. Carnival introduced the new “WiFi@Sea” service on Monday, following 18 months of tests, and plans to have it on all the company’s nine cruise brands and 101 ships in the next few years. Officials say the speed will be comparable to what is found in restaurants and bars that offer Wi-Fi access.

A decent Internet connection “is becoming a more important part in having a good experience,” says Ramon Millan, Carnival’s chief information officer. “Year after year the number of people who want to be connected … is increasing.”

[JGB]

The internet such as it was made for some disagreeable moments on our last cruise. We needed it for business purposes and it was just horrible.

John

[bar1068]

If you follow John Heald's Facebook page, he posted information about the new internet systems there.

[kelkel2]

I am happy about this. Although I don't use the internet much on a ship. I really do like having it for checking into my flights and printing boarding passes before I get to the airport.

[near the beach]

The Carnival installation has been completed. It started with the Magic on October 20, 2013 and the 100th ship the Seabourn Sprit was completed on May 29 of this year.

Also with the update was communications at 56 ports in 32 countries.

It was not just for the passengers it was done to update all of the Carnival ships.

[sanmarcosman]

10 x the speed of a carrier pigeon is still too slow ;)

[funcky]

Thank you for the info!!

[evandbob]

Left out is how much pax will pay for faster speeds.

[Dori Saltzman]

Here's more info about Carnival Corp's investment in its onboard Internet.

 

http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=6047

[Davey Wavey]

The Carnival installation has been completed. It started with the Magic on October 20, 2013 and the 100th ship the Seabourn Sprit was completed on May 29 of this year.

 

Not sure where you got that info, but it states:

 

"Already available on 10 Carnival Corp. ships including eight Carnival Cruise Lines vessels, one Princess ship and one Holland America Line ship, WiFi@Sea will roll out to many more Carnival Corp. ships sailing in the Caribbean during the fourth quarter of this year. Expansion will continue with Alaska in summer 2015, then to the Mediterranean, Baltic, Western Europe and Asia in 2015 and 2016."

[iamirish]

What about the Miracle & Mexico??