Thales agreed to be a value added reseller...

Thales agreed to be a value added reseller for Global Xpress Aviation. Global Xpress will allow Thales to offer airlines a full in-flight entertainment and connectivity selection from hardware to connectivity services, Inmarsat said in a news release (http://bit.ly/1gQT11o). Inmarsat will launch three satellites by the end of the year for the forthcoming Global Xpress Ka-band network (CD Jan 17 p10). GX Aviation will be available for the commercial aviation market in the first half of 2015, “providing Internet speeds up to 50 Mbps almost anywhere in the world,” it said.