“Everyone
wants access to high-speed, reliable mobile Internet wherever they are,
including at 5,000 feet. We are building on AT&T's significant strengths to
develop in-flight connectivity technology unlike any other that exists today,
based on 4G LTE standards. We believe this will enable airlines and passengers
to benefit from reliable high speeds and a better experience. We expect this
service to transform connectivity in the aviation industry -- we are truly
mobilizing the sky.”
Chief Strategy Officer
at AT&T, John Stankey, in a press release on Sunday April 29th
2014
Telecom
Provider AT&T is taking GoGo In-Flight
Wi-Fi to Church.
On
Sunday April 29th 2014, Telecom Provider AT&T announced that they’re going into the
In-Flight Wireless Broadband Business with the intention to introduce 4G LTE
(Long Term Evolution) to airline passengers as stated in “AT&T
to take on Gogo with in-flight Wi-fi service”, published April 28, 2014
5:07 PM PDT by Donna Tam, CNET News and “AT&T
lays out plan for gigabit Internet dominance, setting up Google Fiber showdown”,
published April 21, 2014 3:20 PM by Anthony Domanico, Techhive.
The
excerpt above says it all. GoGo, a name that makes me think of girls dancing on
poles on a plane, Iron Man Style, is going to get some serious competition by
the Third Quarter of 2015 from 4G LTE Wielding Telecom Provider AT&T.
Interestingly,
Telecom Provider AT&T is partnering with
Honeywell, who are already in partnership with Immarsat to provide In-Flight
Satellite Broadband as reported back in April 2012 as stated in my blog
article entitled “Honeywell
partners with Immarsat for In-Flight Satellite Broadband in 2013AD - Konshens
Gal a Bubble for Qualcomm Airplane Broadband”.
=Possibly,
they’ll be in a three-way partnership with Honeywell and Immarsat using unused
14 MHz Spectrum with tech provided by Qualcomm to provision Airplane Wi-Fi
called Next Gen-AG as described in my blog article
entitled “Qualcomm
to create Airplane Wi-Fi named Next Gen-AG using 500MHz of unused 14GHz Spectrum
- 300MBps in the Mile High Club”.
This
as it’s not really 4G LTE that the passengers on board the airplane will be
using. Rather, Telecom Provider AT&T will
most likely install 4G LTE BTS (Base Transceiver Stations) and provision BBU
(Base Band Units) at the Airport on these Cell Towers. Then, they’ll install 4G
LTE-to-Wi-Fi Routers in the airplanes as well as in the Airport buildings to
convert the 4G LTE Wireless Broadband signal to Wi-Fi.
The
Wi-Fi protocol they’ll most likely use is the 1 Gigabit capable IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi
Protocol. The 4G LTE-to-Wi-Fi Routers will receive the 4G LTE signal and to handle
the conversion of 4G LTE signal from their Cell Towers transmitted over the 14
GHz Spectrum to Wi-Fi, making it possible for airplanes in the air to receive Broadband
Speed Internet on a plane
A
process no different from my idea for the JUTC (Jamaica Urban Transit Company)
to install MiFi Routers in their Buses to provide Wi-Fi and get the sex crazed
unruly children to go home and stop loitering in Half-Way-Tree as stated in my blog article
entitled “Unruly
High School Students Making out and having sex in the JUTC Half-Way-Tree
Transport Center - How wi-Fi in Buses can lead to Solar Power, LPG and the
smarterCard Cashless system”.
Google Fiber vs
AT&T U-Verse - AT&T offensive as Google sprouts 1 Gigabit IEEE 802.11ac
Wi-Fi Protocol
AT&T
U-Verse is being expanded to approximately 21 cities in the US of A as listed
below:
1.
Atlanta
2.
Augusta
3.
Charlotte
4.
Chicago
5.
Cleveland
6.
Fort Lauderdale
7.
Fort Worth
8.
Greensboro
9.
Houston
10.
Jacksonville
11.
Kansas City
12.
Los Angeles
13.
Miami
14.
Nashville
15.
Oakland,
16.
Orlando
17.
San Antonio
18.
San Diego
19.
San Francisco
20.
San Jose
21.
St. Louis
Since
February 2014, 34 other cities in 9 States other than Kansas (I have no idea
where that is….Missouri, maybe?) are already courting Google Fiber in their
State and city as stated in “34 Cities Working to
Land Google Fiber”, published FEBRUARY 19, 2014 03:43PM EST BY STEPHANIE
MLOT, PcWorld and “Google
Fiber bulks up with plans for 9 more regions”, published February 19, 2014
11:36 AM PST by Seth Rosenblatt, CNET News.
Google
Fiber is also packing 1Gbps IEEE802.11ac Wi-Fi as stated in “Google
may bestow Wi-Fi in its Google Fiber cities”, published April 24, 2014 6:57
PM PDT by Dara Kerr, CNET News. So no
surprise as many Americans want Google Fiber in their cities. Wishing this was in
Jamaica as well!
Jamaica’s Broadband
Internet Plan – Playing catch-up but ahead with the latest Technology
Jamaica
by comparison is slowly playing catch-up thanks to Telecom Provider Digicel and Telecom Provider LIME.
We
just made the decision to go supersonic earlier on Thursday April 3rd,
2014 with the sale of 700 MHz Spectrum to Telecom Provider Digicel and AWS Spectrum to Telecom
Provider LIME. This in a bid to
provision 4G LTE Wireless Broadband in the next 18 months for Jamaicans to
access High-Speed Internet as stated in my blog
article entitled “LIME
and Digicel have purchase AWS and 700 MHZ Spectrum for 4G LTE - Spectrum
Purchase by the Number with Strings Attached as Ministry gets kitty donations
from Local Telcos”.
Telecom Provider Digicel is slowly switching over to
4G LTE with plans to increase the contribution of ICT (Information and Computer
Technology) to their Profits by 25% via introducing various VAS (Value Added
Services) powered by 4G LTE as stated in my blog
article entitled “Digicel
to invest US$85 million in 4G LTE Network - 25% of Total revenue from ICT as 4G
LTE Investments designed to weather the coming Summer WhatsApp Storm”.
Telecom
Provider LIME, on the other hand is
using AWS Spectrum to provide 4G LTE and has the advantage of more bandwidth,
suggesting that they may use if for LIME
TV as predicted in my blog
article entitled “LIME
chooses AWS for 4G LTE – AWS Link Budget
difference reduces Shadowing as It’s all about Optimization and Human Nature”.
Mobile Money and
Streaming TV coming - In-Flight 4G LTE and FTTH possibly by 2015-2017
There
is the possibility that they may BOTH be dabbling with the idea of Mobile Money
Services, based on reports that Telecom Provider Digicel has plans to do so as stated
in “Digicel
To Roll Out E-Money Service In Jamaica”, Published Wednesday April 23,
2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Telecom
Provider Digicel is also dabbling
with the idea of Streaming Television in the Caribbean, based on the recent
acquisition of a small Cable Provider in Dominica in February 2014 that also
has a Fiber Optic Network as stated in “Digicel
Acquires Cable TV Operation”, Published Wednesday February 19, 2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Later
on April 1st 2014 , General Manager, Digicel Turks and Caicos E Jay
Saunders announced that they’d purchased
WIV Cable TV and TCT, operators of the Broadband Cable service TCExpress in
Turks and Caicos as stated in “DIGICEL ACQUIRES
WIV”, viewed Friday April 17th 2014, Turks and
Caicos Sun and “Digicel
acquires Turks and Caicos television station”, published Wednesday, April
09, 2014, The Jamaica Observer.
So
it’s not so bad, as albeit we’re behind, we’re at least catching up via the use
of the latest Technology. Most of what’s being installed is the Best Technology
that Telecom Equipment Provider Ericsson or Telecom Equipment Provider Huawei
have in stock to sell to the Telecom Providers.
It’s
now just a matter of wait-and-see to see as to who will be given the contract
to provide the Telecom Equiptment to Telecom Provider Digicel and Telecom Provider LIME as well as what plans they have for
VAS.
Hopefully
In-Flight 4G LTE and FTTH (Fiber to the House) may be in the mix by 2015-2017
as our economy improves and becomes affluent enough to afford these high-end
services.
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