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Clarity on Qantas' Plans: OnAir and Aeromobile

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2008-09-24 16:01:14 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir, and was moving to Internet service on A380s instead of in-flight cell calling and texting. Flightglobal clears the air, and reveals that Qantas will offer all of the above. (I wrote about this in " Sorry, Qantas, No Unfettered Broadband OnAir was chosen for A380 service, with the initial rollout--especially for international...
 
Tags: plans, qantas, service, channel service, internet service, qantas plans, onair, flightglobal, trade mag flightglobal
 
 
 
 
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Sorry, Qantas, No Unfettered Broadband

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2008-09-18 10:33:20 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir is now described as the airline's partner. This was noted by colleague Fabio Zambelli, who emailed me the news, and has his own account at 7BIT (in Italian OnAir has so far tested their calling/texting-only service on two aircraft--one operated by Air France, one by TAP Portugal--even though RyanAir announced plans that its planes would...
 
Tags: satellite coverage, coverage, service, service involves, internet service, in-flight broadband plans, plans, inmarsat satellites, inmarsat
 
 
 
 
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Air France Begins In-Flight Voice Trial

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2008-04-02 13:32:53 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir-equipped A318 has entered its next phase. Passengers can place and receive voice calls during flights. The first three months of this test involved only text messaging and mobile email; this phase will last three months, although earlier, both OnAir (the satellite-backed provider offering the service) and Air France said they'd pull the...
 
Tags: air france, air france starts, receive voice calls, onair, recent steep decline, onair sets, mobile email, carriers set, phase
 
 
 
 
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In the Air: United, V Australia, Jazeera

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2008-03-31 16:09:56 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir mobile calling, texting: The Kuwait/Dubai airline will upgrade its six Airbus A320 planes; 34 more A320s are on order, which will have the gear installed during manufacture. Service will launch later this year. This article notes a detail I've seen elsewhere: up to 12 voice calls can be carried at the same time. That's using the older...
 
Tags: time, one-time club pass, includes free wi-fi, lounge users, free, long-time t-mobile customer, airline, lounge, australia airline
 
 
 
 
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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
...OnAir's promotion that 12 simultaneous calls can be supported under their system, only 6 are in this test configuration (12 will be available later). BlackBerry users couldn't get email. The cost is about 2-3 per minute, which is a bit higher than the US$2.50 originally estimated
 
Tags: calls, flight, simultaneous calls, mobile calls, voice calls, prevents in-flight calls, test, house transportation committee, test configuration
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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2008-06-12 10:22:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir, which was promising mobile telephony and texting for about four years, but has been hung out to dry by its satellite partner, Inmarsat, which has suffered huge delays in launching its birds for service The writer says that air-to-ground service is like Wi-Fi in the sky, but it's using cellular data standards, and so it's much more like...
 
Tags: connexion service, service, sidewalk-pickup boltbus service, access, cost roughly, internet access, roughly, cost, bus
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: iPhone 3G Plans, TAP-Fi, Free Boingo Day, St. Louis-Fi

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2008-07-02 11:52:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir's satellite-based call service is now in a trial on a single Airbus A319 in TAP's fleet. The six-month trial will determine how they move forward. TAP was originally slated to launch a trial nearly three years ago, but technical and regulatory issues have delayed in-flight mobile use in Europe. This isn't broadband, by the way: it's...
 
Tags: iphone, iphone customers, customers, tap, att, trial, six-month trial, att dsl, att launches downtown
 
 
 
 
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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
...OnAir and others place a low-power picocell in an aircraft which handles all the frequencies that could be used by mobile phones. The phones associate with the picocell, keeping their power output low. The picocell could be used to prevent calls entirely, too
 
Tags: calls, mobile calls, prevent calls, prevent airlines, airlines, regulatory, picocell, low-power picocell, regulatory actions statutory
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Share Cell Connections over Wi-Fi; Mile High-Fi Salaciousness; Giga-Fi; and More

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2008-09-11 11:02:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...OnAir has signed up the Brazilian carrier TAM, which will deploy the service on its Airbus A320 craft. Brazil hasn't yet provided regulatory approval, so no launch date is noted. TAM is the largest domestic and international carrier for Brazil
 
Tags: wi-fi, internet service, faster wi-fi standard, service, internet, internet access, software, software costs, free wi-fi
 
 
 
 
 
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