Airlines, Connectivity, Inflight Entertainment
Virgin Atlantic makes transatlantic call on A330
Virgin Atlantic announced this week it is the first UK based transatlantic airline to provide passengers with a service to make and receive mobile phone calls in the air at 35,000ft. The service, provided by AeroMobile, also allows passengers to send and receive text messages, emails and have basic web access via GPRS. Passengers will [...]
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Airlines, APEX, Content, Inflight Entertainment, Wireless IFE
Distributors concerned at wireless content distribution
In my last blogpost I talked about the frenzy for wireless content distribution in evidence at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg just a few weeks ago. This week I saw the other side of that frenzy – the downside. I went to the APEX TV Market in Brighton UK and there I garnered the [...]
Continue ReadingAircraft Interiors, APEX, Content, Expositions, handheld IFE, Inflight Entertainment, Wireless IFE
Wired about wireless
Last week at the Expo everyone was totally wired. About wireless that is. In fact, there was only one breaking news story from day one – wireless content distribution. Starting with the conferences (one by APEX another by Reed) rolling out into the exhibition itself – it was all about wireless. In fact, the entire [...]
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Landing major sports deals inflight
The two stand-out announcements in the last few weeks have been on the live television sports content front. Two inflight connectivity service providers have each announced significant deals to secure live broadcast sports programming. Row 44 is partnering with the NFL Network to deliver live sports tv content to wi-fi enabled passenger electronic devices (PEDS) [...]
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Airlines, Content, Inflight Entertainment, Vendors
Rave and BoardConnect make headline news
The heady news of recent weeks really took me by surprise. I am speaking of the flurry of contracts announced separately by The IMS Company and Lufthansa Systems. It is worth pointing out the marked differences between these two pioneering companies. There is a clear distinction. The IMS Company is an autonomous IFE vendor based [...]
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IFE in ten years’ time
I was thrown yesterday by a question posed me by the editor of Onboard Hospitality, for whom I am a guest columnist and contributor. She wanted to know where IFE would be in ten years’ time. Ten years’ time? I guess I am well-placed to answer, in the sense that I have already been in [...]
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Aircraft Interiors, Airlines, Connectivity, Content, Inflight Entertainment
2011 IFEC round-up
It’s the end of year round-up. Let’s cast an eye back over this year’s trends. We saw the rise of tablet devices as a form of IFE. We saw connectivity mature and grow. We saw how embedded inseat systems still trump any other form of IFE to the larger airline market. We saw increasing convergence [...]
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