AS-IP Tech Inc (IPTK)

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New write up mentioning ASIP (IPTK) and fflya at runwaygirlnetwork.com. Very, very meaningful for IPTK, imo, especially the relationship with Iridium. From the article:

"In commercial IFEC, specifically, while some wireless entertainment companies suggested in 2019 that they had cooled on the idea of an Iridium integration, others are pressing forward given the low-latency nature of Iridium’s service.
AS-IP Tech (ASIP), for instance, is preparing to soon launch commercial operations of its fflya Bluetooth connectivity kit — with unique dual window antennas — onboard Wizz Air UK aircraft. The lite inflight connectivity solution will initially use Iridium’s classic service.
But ASIP founder and president Ron Chapman tells Runway Girl Network that fflya is “also designed to accommodate the new Certus midband."
ASIP also has the option to add Certus 350 broadband (352 Kbps) — and with it the requisite high-gain antenna on the roof of the aircraft — if demand dictates, and as a complement to the window antennas."

"But do these types of IFEC players need to be formally approved as Iridium value added manufacturers?"

Any company that is integrating Iridium technology into a custom application “would in almost all circumstances have a formal relationship with us to do that”, responded Iridium VP & GM of IoT and Aviation Tim Last. “They may have started working on the technology with one of our other partners because we have a range of other partners that are familiar with our technology that supports third party integrators. But in almost all cases that I am aware of, we know of those companies or they have a great relationship.

“And yes, as part of that, we insist that the product goes through certain testing type approval or certification on our network. Now we are doing that primarily for performance over the Iridium network. We are not doing aviation certification or telling them ‘can you put that in the cabin in a certain position or location’, that’s not our responsibility in relation to those solutions. But we obviously do our best to qualify those companies to make sure that they build good business plans, good technology and that they’re putting the right due diligence in place when they are working in the markets.”

Speaking broadly, and not about any specific company, Last notes that there is indeed “one or two of those types of companies that have been developing for a while and Iridium has been used for payment solutions on charter flights and other things. So yeah, we are quite excited because there is a space for that where full blown inflight connectivity is not going to be available but a throttled down version that’s maybe doing payments and messaging, things like that, absolutely.”


https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2021/11/11/iridium-certus-100-now-available-will-custom-ifec-apps-be-pursued/