As a passenger, what are your in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) priorities? Is it in-seat power to keep you independent of airline IFEC? Is it connectivity to transport you mentally out of the tube? Or do you simply want a…
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s head of business development, Boris Bubresko, spoke with us at APEX in Seattle briefly and described how well the installation of the Row44 service is going. Uptake is better than they expected. So much so they are…
There have been lots of questions about the viability of in-flight connectivity. Once you try it, you know why you want it. But there is the hurdle of paying for it – which is tough when connectivity is free in…
When you fly, and your seat has access to a seat back screen, we bet you visit the moving map at least once per hour. Many people simply tune out of the awful movies and reruns of TV sitcoms to…
We had a visit with ViaSat in Carlsbad California. We spoke with Bill Sullivan, Director of Strategy and Business Development (Mobile Broadband) and Don Buchman, Director Mobile Broadband Systems. Besides discussing the Ka technical offering, we also spoke about geographical…
Yesterday Continental announced it is going to install Ka-band connectivity from LiveTV. This means about 200 US domestic airplanes (737 and 757) are going to be able to offer Internet connectivity as this process gets rolled out. The story is…