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For Faster In-flight Wi-Fi, the Satellites Have Arrived and the Antennas Are on the Way
By Mark Rasmussen, Vice President & General Manager, Mobility Anyone who has tried to connect to the Internet from an airplane over the past couple of years has experienced the quality progression of in-flight Wi-Fi. Passengers have gone from no connectivity initially to having the ability...
Read MoreDebunking the Myths of Airline Connectivity
Before you plan your inflight connectivity (IFC) strategy, get the real story about these five satellite myths. Nearly every major airline is planning its digital strategy and investing in IFC technologies to realize the promise of the connected future. The benefits are well-known – from improving...
Read More“Smart Planes” of the Future
The Sky’s the Limit By Matthieu Richard, Product Marketing Manager, Aeronautical & Future Market Segments Commercial air travel has been around for more than a century, and it’s come a long way since its humble beginnings. The first commercial flight in 1914 carried one passenger ...
Read MoreGogo Adds Intelsat 29e Services to Provide Broadband Connectivity for Aircraft Crossing the North Atlantic
Performance and Ease of Accessibility Offered by First Intelsat EpicNG Satellite Enable Gogo to Begin Immediate Delivery of Improved Inflight Wi-Fi for Passengers Luxembourg, 17 November 2016 – Intelsat (NYSE: I), operator of the world’s first Globalized Network, powered by its leading ...
Read MoreMaking the Mobilized, Globalized
When we hear the statistic that 4.1 billion of the world’s citizens are unconnected, we tend to picture remote villages of Alaska or isolated communities in the bush in Africa. And though those places may have little or no broadband Internet access, there is another population of people who becom...
Read MoreExtending Wi-Fi to the Sky
How Satellites Support Airline Profitability With so many planes seeking satellite coverage along popular routes, networks may struggle to support bandwidth demands and supply satisfying user experiences. Intelsat’s platform addresses these concerns with intelligent network design. Satellites ...
Read MoreGogo Partners with Intelsat on Major Capacity Agreement Across Intelsat Globalized Network and Becomes Anchor Tenant for World’s First GEO/LEO Shared Network
Gogo customers to get pole-to-pole and gate-to-gate coverage from the 10 Tbps shared Intelsat EpicNG/OneWeb network Luxembourg, Chicago and Washington D.C, 07 March 2016 – Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO), the global leader in providing broadband connectivity solutions and wireless entertainment to the aviat...
Read MoreAccelerate Inflight Broadband Connectivity with IntelsatOne® Flex
Leverage Intelsat’s Flexible, Shared Wholesale Infrastructure to Seize the In-flight Broadband Service Opportunity Allow Intelsat Distribution Partners to Increase Speed to Market, Achieve Global Service Footprint and Lower Start-Up Capital Expenditures Manage and Mitigate Expansion, Technolog...
Read More5 Trends on the Rise in Mobility Services Down Under
By Patrick French, Head of Business Development, Asia-Pacific While Intelsat is a global company, providing coverage of 99% of the world’s populated regions, we are organized regionally in order to address the unique demands of businesses and their end-users in different parts of the world. After ...
Read MoreIntelsat and Phasor Partner on New Antenna Technology to Enable Ku-band Broadband Connectivity to Civil and Government Small-Jet Aviation Marketplace
Phasor’s ultra thin, phased array antennas optimized for the Intelsat NG® platform will enable high performing, cost efficient Ku-band broadband connectivity; offering service providers and aircraft operators catering to civil and government small-jet markets greater access, flexibility and c...
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