Airline Wi Fi coming soon

Coming Soon: Airline Wi-Fi that really works



Wi-Fi work at 40000 feet, Air travel and glitch free internet access are often considered mutually exclusive. India is that the world’s fastest growing aviation market and airlines like IndiGo became behemoths rather quickly. You cannot access Wi-Fi inside an airplane thanks to security reasons. Even foreign airlines are forced to turnoff connectivity services when in Indian airspace. Last year, the Government introduced Flight and Maritime Connectivity Rules to allow flight calling and internet surfing. There are two ways of connecting, one is the normal route of connecting with on-ground antenna’s and other one is bit more complicated. When flying over vast oceans, there are not any on-surface antenna’s to speak with, hence the plane directly connects with satellites.
Information is transmitted to and from your smartphone via a radome on the highest of the aircraft, which connects to the closest satellite signal. Information is passed between the bottom and therefore the plane via the satellite. Wi-Fi signal is disturbed to plane passengers via an on-board router. Bur there could also be some excellent news on the horizon- a replacement era of ground-quality internet connectivity that would save carriers billions of dollars. The seamless Air Alliance, a nonprofit group of 30 companies, say its new tech architecture will make on the wing connectivity systems modular, with open interfaces and components which will easily be swapped out. The alliance includes Airbus and Delta Air Lines, with such equipment makers and satellite companies as Panasonic Avionics, Intelsat, Nokia and Vodafone Group. Together, they need to introduce a worldwide standard, using protocols derived from the cellular and Wi-Fi industries. With this, your mobile connection would migrate from one system to another, from the terminal onto the jet bridge and down the aisle to your seat- without the need to log in or pay.
The alliance chief executive officer, Jack Mandala said that airlines have equipment that only works with the provider they have chosen. This alliance may change the entire airport experience for the passengers and this experience can be a brand damaging event for the airlines as the passengers are out there on social media and they may complain when they can’t get proper service and they don’t blame the service provider and they will only blame on the airline. And these can lead to a new platform for competing against each other in the airline business. In india the telecom operators can now apply for an operating license from India’s Telecom regulator TRAI. Hughes Communications India and Tatanet Services have already bagged the Flight and Maritime Connectivity (IFMC) license and even Airtel and Jio are within the process of getting one according to the reports.
Right now Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, and Air China are few airlines that use the same suite to provide connectivity at 35000 feet