Aeronautical Broadband Covers Pacific

KVH Industries and ViaSat announced Pacific Ocean coverage for their mini-VSAT Broadband satellite communications service.

With the service roll-out, aircraft and vessels have access to Ku-band Internet and voice services in an area including Alaska, the west coasts of Canada and the United States and Hawaii into Asia, the two companies said. The services now are available from the Asian coast eastward throughout North America and the Caribbean, across the North Atlantic, to the Mediterranean.

“We have now successfully rolled out a single, unified broadband service across roughly two-thirds of the world's major shipping and aeronautical lanes, enabling us to offer commercial, leisure, and government customers a unique mobile communications hardware and service solution," said Martin Kits van Heyningen, KVH chief executive officer.