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Airborne Network Taps Aircraft as Flying Network Nodes

Low-cost wireless broadband could someday come from thousands of airborne transceivers carried on the world's airliners.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

November 30, 2016

Airborne Wireless Network has applied to the FAA for an STC to install its broadband transceivers on Boeing 757s in a bid to deploy a low-altitude broadband wireless network that could rival ground-based and satellite communications networks, as well as provide airborne Internet connectivity to other aircraft. According to the company, the STC application for the “Infinitus Super Highway is the first of its kind filed with the FAA.”

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