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Private Firm Pursues 'Infinitus' Airborne Broadband Network

Airborne Wireless Network hopes to conduct a 20-aircraft flight demonstration of its air-to-air broadband network by next summer.

Testers pose with Dynamic Airways Boeing 767 during proof-of-concept testing in May. (Photo: Airborne Wireless Network)

September 5, 2017

A Simi Valley, California-based company hopes to conduct a fleet exercise next summer of an airborne broadband wireless network stitched together using airliners. Assuming the concept succeeds, Airborne Wireless Network (AWN) will operate as a wholesale carrier, making coverage available to customers such as internet service providers and telephone companies.

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