[AusNOG] WIFI/Internet on Planes

[Curtis Bayne]

Skeeve,

It's the ground connectivity segment which is challenging - there is no
unified ground network in Australia. The USA has had a long legacy of
allocating and using spectrum for air to ground communications (remember
Airfone?).

Satellite connectivity for planes is hard and expensive (Inmarsat's
Swift64s seem to be the standard from my limited exposure). The best we
could probably hope for is that Telstra puts a few sky-facing sectors on
NextG towers along busy routes and someone designs a fuselage-mounted
850Mhz omnidirectional MIMO antenna that doesn't crack and cause rapid
depressurization of the craft like some of the SATCOM antennas ;).

Regards,
Curtis


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> Virgin are half way there... they are introducing/have introduced WiFi
> in-flight entertainment systems so you can BYOD... makes a hell of a lot of
> sense.
>
> Shouldn't be too much of a drama to add internet to it.
>
>
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> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Curtis Bayne <curtis at bayne.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Joel,
>>
>> It's absolutely crazy this isn't available in Australia. The FAA has
>> allowed transmitters on American flights for a number of years now and
>> CASA, as usual, are dragging the chain.
>>
>> Mobile phone reception on planes actually isn't too bad below 25000ft
>> considering the downward elevation with which the sectors are usually
>> aligned. I've got a friend who is a commercial domestic airline pilot - he
>> reckons the bottom on the cockpit window is the best place to stick your
>> phone on hotspot mode in Boeing aircraft ;)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Curtis
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Zone Networks - Joel <
>> joel at zonenetworks.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Slightly off topic but was wondering if anyone has recently used the
>>> internet connection on international flights from Sydney to USA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I know the following airlines have it available
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Singapore
>>>
>>> Emirates
>>>
>>> United Airlines
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pity Qantas doesn’t…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have used it a lot within Domestic US flights but since I fly mostly
>>> Qantas have no experience with other airlines on International flights
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please reply off the list unless others are interested as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Joel
>>>
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