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As China’s domestic travel and tourism industry shows signs of recovery, inflight connectivity service providers are looking to the world’s most populous country as a growth market. After all, the lion’s share of China’s domestic airline fleet is still not fitted with IFC systems that support broadband Internet for passengers. By the end of 2020, China’s three largest carriers — Air China, China Eastern and China Southern — “had reported demand returning to 90 percent of 2019 le...

Isaac Angel is the new chairman of the board of Gilat Satellite Networks, the company announced March 9. Angel takes over from Dov Baharav who has stepped down and retired after being in the role for seven years. Angel serves as chairman of the board and served as CEO at Ormat Technologies Inc., a global company delivering renewable power and energy solutions. Before his seven-year tenure as an officer and director at Ormat, Angel held executive positions at LeadCom Integrated Solutions, Li...

In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8 and Women’s History Month, Global Eagle is collaborating with The WOW Foundation to enable airl...

Global Eagle is today announcing it has obtained the exclusive worldwide inflight distribution rights to critically acclaimed independent films ‘Minar...

Canadian satellite operator Telesat has selected Thales Alenia Space as the prime manufacturer of its global LEO constellation, which will comprise 298 Ka-band satellites integrated with an advanced ground network, and offer pole-to-pole coverage. The network, branded Lightspeed, is being optimized to serve the broadband connectivity requirements of aeronautical and maritime users, in addition to fixed and mobile network operators, enterprise customers and governments. Telesat has been developi...

  7digital is the global leader in B2B end-to-end digital music solutions. The core of its business is the provision of robust and scalable technical infrastructure and extensive global music rights used to create music streaming and radio services for a diverse range of customers. These include consumer and social media brands, online fitness technologies, mobile carriers, broadcasters, automotive systems, record labels and retailers.  7digital also offers radio production and m...

5G in Aviation Market Insights, Business Opportunities and Forecast to 2030

If airlines adopt free or “freemium” inflight connectivity models for their passengers, as many are expected to do, the amount of satellite capacity required to meet their needs “will far exceed available capacity in the near future”, according to Hughes Network Systems. That’s among the reasons why the EchoStar subsidiary believes its high-capacity Ka-band satellite service is well positioned to secure meaningful aero business in the Americas, despite the fact that Viasat has gained ...

As the movie landscape is reshaped amid the COVID-19 crisis – and on the heels of the bombshell decision by Warner Bros. to exhibit its 2021 sla...

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Global Xpress (GX) Ka-band network, Inmarsat is gearing up for the launch of four new GX payloads and three new GX satellites between now and year-end 2023. CEO Rupert Pearce characterizes this technology roadmap as the “most ambitious” in the company’s history, and notes that it is “fully-funded”. The London-headquartered satellite operator currently operates a five-satellite GX constellation, in addition to a fleet of L-band satellites. The f...