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European Commission Moves Forward on In-Flight Mobile Plan

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2008-04-07 12:21:42 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight mobile communications, which means that a firm or airline need apply to just one telecom/spectrum regulator to have permission to use the service throughout the EC. The EC's other measure details the technical requirements for the equipment--picocells--to be used on aircraft so that frequency licensing isn't in conflict between ground...
 
Tags: mhz, mhz band, mhz frequencies, mhz bands, pan-european telecom rules, rules, in-flight service, service, ground stations
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight Wi-Fi on American as Soon as This Week

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2008-06-23 13:26:20 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight network using Aircell GoGo service: She writes that it might be as early as this week on JFK, LAX, SFO, and MIA flights (that last one is Miami; took me a moment). Virgin is probably still a few months away, although they told Jardin that they're more prepared , but they have more integration to do Jardin notes that Virgin is thinking...
 
Tags: flight, cross country flight, wi-fi, jardin, lax-jfk costs, xeni jardin, jfk, american airlines launches, aircell
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight Broadband Flies Tomorrow in Test

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2008-06-24 19:51:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight broadband briefly flickers back to life with a JFK to Los Angeles round-trip flown by American on which passengers will get free use of the onboard, in-flight Internet service via Wi-Fi. The test flight is a kind of soft launch, which will be followed in a few weeks by full-on service American will offer Gogo on its 15 Boeing 767-200s,...
 
Tags: jfk-lax routes, jfk, test, american airlines, american, routes, onboard, test flight, jfk-sfo
 
 
 
 
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When your flight is DOA

2008-07-24 00:04:46 by HASH0x8473300 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...flight which has been on this same runway and not moved for the past 2 and a half hours I say I am live blogging this, but of course you are not live reading this. That is because I have no way to upload this to my server. You see the iPhone 3G for all the coolness, has no Internet sharing that I am aware of. My old windows mobile phone had...
 
Tags: flight, flight home tomorrow, flight home, tomorrow, half, half hours, hours, live, windows mobile phone
 
 
 
 
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American Launches In-Flight Broadband Pilot

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2008-08-20 08:33:21 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight, and bandwidth is expected to be 1.5 Mbps (uncompressed) upstream and downstream, although the service provider, Aircell, claims some advantages above that This is a big day for Aircell, which spent tens of millions to acquire the exclusive spectrum license that allows them to shoot Mbps to and from planes. My big question will be...
 
Tags: flight, in-flight broadband, service, service provider, american, internet service, real production service, american airlines, aircell
 
 
 
 
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Congress Moves to Formalize Ban on In-Flight Calling

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2008-08-01 10:48:31 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight calls: The current ban is regulatory, with the FCC disallowing calls using 850 MHz equipment and the FAA not certifying airworthiness for mobile calls (and not having been asked to do such by the industry, as far as I know). But that's not enough for Congress, and perhaps rightly so The HANG UP Act (Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us...
 
Tags: calls, mobile calls, prevent calls, prevent airlines, airlines, regulatory, picocell, low-power picocell, regulatory actions statutory
 
 
 
 
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Leading Travel Writer Reams Out In-Flight Internet

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2008-08-19 09:34:03 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight Internet is imminent: I've covered some of the same ground, but veteran travel writer Brancatelli connected the dots by checking with the FAA to find the status of applications for aircraft certification by Aircell and others He's not very positive about it, because his research shows a mismatch between claims and work. He writes that...
 
Tags: service, seamless service, spotty service, connexion service, connexion, airline incentives, airline, in-flight internet, ground
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight VoIP Ban: Against FCC Rules? Highly Desirable?

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2008-09-16 09:50:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight VoIP constitutes a violation of FCC rules about blocking services: The Progress and Freedom Foundation's Barbara Espin uses the ban on in-flight VoIP by American Airlines (facilitated by provider Aircell) to make a broader argument about what she calls the FCC's "ad hoc approach to broadband network management issues." It's clever....
 
Tags: voip, in-flight voip constitutes, in-flight, in-flight voip, block voip calls, fcc rules, fcc, voice calls, calls
 
 
 
 
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U.S., European Views of In-Flight Cell Calls: No! Oui?

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2008-04-19 20:02:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight. For most representatives, who are typically not wealthy, it's routine to travel couch as often as weekly back to the hinterlands for fundraising, constituent services, and family visits. DeFazio et al would like to ensure that the current regulatory situation that prevents in-flight calls would be more fully spelled out as a statutory...
 
Tags: calls, flight, simultaneous calls, mobile calls, voice calls, prevents in-flight calls, test, house transportation committee, test configuration
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Exhaustive Looks at In-Flight-Fi, Every-Fi

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2008-07-17 09:57:49 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...flight broadband overview: Computerworld surveys what's about to happen with in-flight broadband in the U.S. and worldwide. It's an exhaustive look (especially the run-down at the end) about what we'll be able to get on each airline or from each service. American's launch of GoGo from Aircell should be days away Wi-Fi wherever blowout: Eric...
 
Tags: wi-fi planet, wi-fi, eric griffith, computerworld surveys, in-flight broadband, exhaustive, aircell, limitations, thousands