Revenues and performance of global satellite aeronautical communications

In this paper we estimate the revenues that airlines can expect from passenger telephone and Internet services offered on North Atlantic flights, under the assumption of an existing wireless cabin infrastructure, supporting wireless Internet and GSM telephony. According to the expected usage of thes...

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Main Authors: Battaglia, L., Werner, M., Holzbock, M.
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://elib.dlr.de/7312/
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Summary:In this paper we estimate the revenues that airlines can expect from passenger telephone and Internet services offered on North Atlantic flights, under the assumption of an existing wireless cabin infrastructure, supporting wireless Internet and GSM telephony. According to the expected usage of these services, to the aircrafts’ cabin configurations and to the North Atlantic routes split figures are also presented per aircraft type and for some major airlines serving these routes.