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Inflight mobile firm sees 100,000th user
16 Feb 2009
Inflight mobile phone service provider AeroMobile announced that it saw its 100,000th user yesterday (15 February).
Confirming what the company describes as 'a dramatic increase in calls this year', the milestone was achieved during an Emirates flight from Dubai to Singapore.
After the first 50,000 users were clocked up in the first nine months since the launch of the AeroMobile system, the second 50,000 were recorded in less than two months.
Bjorn-Taale Sandberg, chief executive of the service provider, said: 'As the service availability has broadened, the number of users has shot up from 10,000 a month at the end of 2008 to 25,000 a month so far this year – and it's rising rapidly as each day goes by.
'The sharp increase is not due only to the wider availability as our system is rolled out across the Emirates fleet, but the acceptance from passengers of what a valuable and stable service it is.'
Emirates has 31 AeroMobile-equipped aircraft which operate more than 350 short- and long-haul flights every week to some 49 countries.
AeroMobile made an announcement in September last year that it had won a contract with Qantas to equip its planes with inflight mobile capability, which was followed in November by confirmation of a deal with Malaysia Airlines.
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Confirming what the company describes as 'a dramatic increase in calls this year', the milestone was achieved during an Emirates flight from Dubai to Singapore.
After the first 50,000 users were clocked up in the first nine months since the launch of the AeroMobile system, the second 50,000 were recorded in less than two months.
Bjorn-Taale Sandberg, chief executive of the service provider, said: 'As the service availability has broadened, the number of users has shot up from 10,000 a month at the end of 2008 to 25,000 a month so far this year – and it's rising rapidly as each day goes by.
'The sharp increase is not due only to the wider availability as our system is rolled out across the Emirates fleet, but the acceptance from passengers of what a valuable and stable service it is.'
Emirates has 31 AeroMobile-equipped aircraft which operate more than 350 short- and long-haul flights every week to some 49 countries.
AeroMobile made an announcement in September last year that it had won a contract with Qantas to equip its planes with inflight mobile capability, which was followed in November by confirmation of a deal with Malaysia Airlines.
Opodo cheap flights, hotels and car hire - let the journey begin!
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