Communication onboard aircraft Francois Courau ETSI MSG Chairman

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Communication onboard aircraftFrancois
CourauETSI MSG Chairman
Submission DateJune 17, 2008
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IS Communication onboard Aircraft

• Reminder of the mechanism

Description of the end-to-end system
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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 RTTE Directive
• Was published as EN 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.

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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.