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AirCell Advances Toward Inflight Cell Phone Service
Patent Allowed on Key Technology to Support Airborne Use of Personal
Cell Phones
AirCell, Inc. has received notification from the United States Patent
Office that it has allowed a patent on an aircraft telecommunications
technology which will permit passengers to use their personal cell
phones while an aircraft is in-flight. The AirCell technology is a
key step toward offering such a service to the world's airlines.
The AirCell approach is dramatically less complex, lower cost, and
more flexible than any previously identified solution. Ken Jochim,
vice president of engineering and operations at AirCell provided further
details, "AirCell's novel approach dramatically reduces the size,
weight, and cost of equipment required to provide cellular service
onboard an aircraft, as compared to earlier approaches referred to
as 'picocells' which involve putting the equivalent of a full terrestrial
cellular base station onboard the aircraft. The patented concepts
allow all the functionality provided to the cellular user in-flight
to be controlled by the network rather than the airborne station,
simplifying the addition of features and migration to future cellular
technologies, and it also provides a novel way to manage the radio
frequency environment in the aircraft to prevent interference."
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