Yes, LOL @ me for stating how the vast majority of in-flight entertainment is loaded onto aircraft fitted with in-flight entertainment headends.
You do know that each airline chooses what media to load (i.e. pay for), yeah? And the more you license, the less you can get into the IFE headend over a T-Mobile Magenta connection. This is very basic and yet you have completely failed to grasp it.
Once again, I will re-iterate that you know absolutely nothing about how this works. For example: how good do you think that terabytes of data flow across cellular modems that get shut down as soon as the aircraft sends a signal to the IFE headend that "weight on wheels" == 0?
Guess what? The cellular modem shuts off the instant the landing gear lift off the runway, per FCC and FAA regulations. I know that, as well as every engineer working on the headend platform, because that's how it must work under current regulations.
You don't know that, because you're an idiot who thinks they know more than they do.
In order to deliver a connected aircraft that complies with current regulatory rules, we need to deliver multi-orbit satellite connectivity (i.e. GEO and LEO) which requires a new antenna be installed on the aircraft, as well as software that can handle the multipath routing properly. But you don't know that either. And you also don't know that nobody makes those antennas in a factory yet - they are custom built and installed and there's only a handful of them right now actually mounted on airside hardware that United just did a press availability event on last month. But go on telling me what I know and what I don't.
You also don't seem to understand that getting customized IFEC software built and deployed for your airline takes months of development and certification time from the IFEC provider. But sure, let's just change that up to allow anyone to yell "YEEEEE HAWW" and deliver questionable software from who-the-fuck-knows-where to be installed on systems running in the electronics bay of a wide-body 787 carrying hundreds of people over an ocean without the pilot having any idea it's happening. What could go wrong, amirite?
Idiot. Quit while you're behind.