ARINC and Starling to Offer Broadband Communications to More Biz Jets

ARINC Direct and Starling Advanced Communication will jointly market Starling's fuselage-mounted antenna systems to bring high-speed communications' capability to more medium-and-large size business jets.

Currently, ARINC's SKYLink service is limited to business aircraft that can accommodate a mechanically steered tail-mount antenna.  Under their new agreement, SKYLink will be offered as well to business aircraft equipped with Starling's MIJET and MiniMIJET fuselage-mounted antenna systems, giving   thousands of additional business aircraft passengers access to Internet, VPN (virtual private network),VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), email, mobile phone, PDA (personal digital assistant), video conferencing and instant messaging applications. 

ARINC and Starling will jointly develop and carry out service demonstrations, customer visits and sales support.  Robert Thompson, ARINC's senior director of satellite services, says his company will offer the service in 2007. 12-05-2006.

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