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Communication onboard aircraft Francois Courau ETSI MSG Chairman. Submission Date: June 17, 2008. IS: Communication onboard Aircraft. Reminder of the mechanism. Description of the end-to-end system. Highlight of Current Activities (1). ETSI has two main achievements
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Communication onboard aircraftFrancois CourauETSI MSG Chairman Submission Date:June 17, 2008
IS: Communication onboard Aircraft • Reminder of the mechanism Description of the end-to-end system
Highlight of Current Activities (1) • ETSI has two main achievements • Harmonized EN for the GSM onboard aircraft system covering the essential requirements of Article 3.2 of the R&TTE Directive • Was published asEN 302 480 Ver. 1.1.2 • Was sent to the European commission on 2008-04-24 • is planned to soon be published in the Official Journal of the European Union • Consequence: from the 2008/07/17 equipment to be put onboard aircraft to provide telecommunication services can be put in place all over Europe. • Several Airlines companies have already started to deliver Short Messages and Multimedia messages to passengers on an experimental basis to test the acceptability by customers: • in phase 1 customers on board the aircraft could send/receive SMS and multimedia messages but the voice-service was disabled, • in phase 2 (which started April 2008) voice as well as data was made available onboard the aircraft.
Strategic Direction • Following the testing period, full operation is planned by ONAIR • The deployment of such a system in Europe if successful may push ONAIR and Airlines to look for generalization of the system to intercontinental flight • This will involve further collaboration between PSOs in the field of preventing the system to be harmful to other terrestrial system. • Other technology could be foreseen in the future as new technologies are now under worldwide deployment asking for similar type of service to be available for them.