Originally Posted by HeliStudent
Earlier in the thread I was asking about workers offshore and PPRuNe member diginagain said he was communicating from a rig in the North Sea using a satellite link. I don't know the total number of workers offshore but in the longterm wouldn't it be useful if they could have wifi access so that they could use their laptops/iPads for personal communications, maybe Skyping their family etc?
As I said, many of us do have wi-fi access onboard, sometimes it's seperate from the unit's business link, otherwise we have access to unused bandwidth on the satellite link. If you pick a quiet moment, Skype is usable.