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Re: Voyant and Aircell connection

Here where you can find this and more:

http://www.visionaryinnovationsinc.com/voyant_aviation_broadband.html

From Interview with Dana Waldman:

"...Have you seen AirCell’s solution? Or do you understand how it works? How does Voyant’s solution compare to AirCell’s?

We know a little about AirCell. Their marketing department is going full-blast right now, generating a lot of buzz around their service launch. We think that’s good for the entire industry.

AirCell also uses an air-to-ground approach. However, in their case, they operate over a small amount of licensed spectrum here in the US. It limits the capacity they can provide, so it’s natural that they are focused on convincing the airlines and the consumer that they don’t need much capacity. It also means that they are limited to providing service in the U.S., since buying spectrum across a multi-nation environment like Europe would be very difficult.

With our scheme, we don’t suffer this limitation.

At the end of the day, we believe our system and service will scale better than anyone else’s, and we’ll scale while maintaining attractive price points. That is our focus. There are ground-based and satellite-based narrowband solutions that will be in the market before our system is finished, but based on our conversation with airlines so far, many of them believe that Voyant’s system will be worth the wait.

AirCell claims speeds of 2 Mbps, but you claim up to 35 Mbps. Why are American Airlines and Virgin America trialing AirCell if your solution offers much faster speeds?

Airlines want connectivity and many of them want it now…so it’s good to see that companies are able to provide initial capability. We expect to be able to provide a much more scalable solution at low cost. We believe that providing 10 times as much capacity is a huge discriminator.

What about Row 44? They are claiming 30 Mbps.

This is where we need to be careful about comparing apples with apples.

Satellite-based solution providers like Row 44 typically talk about the amount of bandwidth shared across and entire fleet.

So we have to compare 30 Mbps shared across hundreds of airplanes with Voyant’s 35 Mbps to each individual airplane. We’re providing hundreds of times more bandwidth!

How hard would it be to “retrofit” AirCell GoGo or Row44 planes?

That’s not a current focus for us. "