Connexion by Boeing said Mon. it will roll out a commercial marit...
Connexion by Boeing said Mon. it will roll out a commercial maritime service in the fall, at a monthly charge of $2,800 per vessel. The maritime service is a counterpart to Boeing’s aeronautical Connexion service. Boeing isn’t targeting passenger…
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ships but may later. “If you think of think of tankers, cargo ships, there are probably something on the order of 40,000 vessels of that type, spending something like $1 billion a year on communications and not doing that much communicating at that,” Sean Schwinn, vp-maritime service for Connexion, told us. Schwinn said Boeing has made preliminary choices on equipment vendors for the service but isn’t announcing them yet. The 3 lead vendors for its aeronautical service are Mitsubishi, ViaSat and Rockwell Collins. Connexion must complete several steps before it can launch the service, Schwinn said. “We and others still have to file applications with the FCC and other regulatory authorities to operate the service,” he said: “That’s a job that definitely needs to get done. We're developing some new hardware that we need to complete the development of and bring in to test.”