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THAI to Offer in Flight WiFi Service
19th Sep 2013
The national flag carrier, THAI, is poised to become the first Thai airline to offer WiFi as its innovative in-flight service to its customers. The airline is now on the process of getting its license approved from the country's telecom regulator.
According to the Secretary to the vice-chairman of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Jesada Sivaraks, THAI is intending to apply for a type-1 license to offer WiFi service, enabling all its passengers on board flights get connected to the internet.
Secretary Sivaraks revealed that the airline applied for two licenses a couple of years ago, one for mobile service and another for WiFi service.
He, however, clarified that the commission could not grant a license for an in-flight mobile service as it would contravene the law, specifically the Section 46 of the Frequency Allocation Act.
Needless to say, the NBTC can only grant the license for an in-flight WiFi service to the airline. The commission has reserved a spectrum of 2.4-GHz to the flag carrier for use on board.
THAI has options to choose either of the two leading in-flight WiFi providers, AeroMobile Communications of Britain and Switzerland's OnAir. The former is a UK-based GSM provider for air transport industry while the latter is a fully-owned subsidiary of Geneva-based SITA (formerly Soci't' Internationale de T'l'communications A'ronautiques).
AeroMobile provides users on board flights to use their mobile phones for almost all sorts of communication such as calling, internet browsing and texting. There has been a tremendous growth in the usage of AeroMobile service among passengers since it was launched in 2008.
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