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Connectivity post-Connexion.(Connexion by Boeing, inflight communication services)

By Croft, John
Publication: Air Transport World
Date: Sunday, October 1 2006

SPRING IS THE TIME OF YEAR ASSOCIATED WITH renewal, but this year it is the holiday season that will herald regeneration for inflight connectivity. By year end, a host of new services for airline passengers are scheduled to be springing to life. Counterbalancing the arrivals will be the departure of the 800-lb. gorilla of connectivity: Connexion by Boeing.

The untimely but not unexpected announcement in mid-August that Boeing's broadband offering will be scrapped late this year has given pause to the emerging connectivity suitors. "We're a little concerned right now,"

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