European Commission (EC) policy, in its drive to advance the “Single Digital Market” — and therefore seamless operation of services across European Union (EU) borders — has encouraged a greater diversity of delivery mechanisms for aeronautical passenger connectivity, seeking to enable terrestrial backhaul in addition to satellite.
CEPT has completed its technical study of DA2GC, suggesting possible harmonization at the EC level and an allocation of the bands to selected users. The final draft reports that such systems are planned for deployment by 2017.
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Adding terrestrially based capacity options to those already available by satellite could help propel the European aero connectivity sector, and it will become clear how many paths to aero connectivity the market can support. VS
Nina Beebe is director for emerging markets at Access Partnership in London.
