Calling from the Troposphere: ABI Research Examines the Coming Market for In-flight Wireless.OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y. -- Between January 1 and December 31, 2005, a staggering 1.2 billion passengers will have flown on some 28 million flights worldwide. Historically, passengers have been forbidden to use their mobile communications -- cellular phones or Wi-Fi-equipped portable devices -- in flight. But that is starting to change. Wi-Fi has been installed on a number of airlines, including Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport.[1] In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers. . Others intend to follow suit. A whole new market is being created. A new study from ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research, "In-flight Mobile and Wi-Fi Services: Market Potential and Challenges," provides a comprehensive review and assessment of this complex but potentially lucrative market. It assesses regulatory bottlenecks and technical solutions, as well as forecasting market growth and capital expenditure. Mobile phones were originally banned in flight because they log on to terrestrial networks and cause network management chaos; but they also radiate ra·di·ate v. 1. To spread out in all directions from a center. 2. To emit or be emitted as radiation. ra at their maximum power, and there was concern about possible interference with the aircraft's avionics. Now companies such as Qualcomm, Siemens and Ericsson have developed pico-cell technologies that will allow the use of both GSM and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. mobile phones during flights, without causing any interference. "The in-flight Wi-Fi and mobile communications market holds considerable promise," says ABI Research's Director or Research for Europe, Jake Saunders, "but regulatory hurdles, satellite communications bandwidth and pricing will constrain the market potential in the short to medium term." ABI Research believes that the market will develop once the regulatory barriers have been removed. For the next five years, much of the activity will be Wi-Fi related, but as regulatory obstacles to mobile communications are removed, their usage on aircraft will build. "We expect that in-flight mobile communications services will first start in Europe in 2007," adds Saunders. "Asia will follow, then North America." Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in automotive, wireless, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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