Airborne Wireless Network Receives FCC Approval to Test Demonstration System
SIMI VALLEY, Calif., May 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Airborne Wireless Network (OTCQB: ABWN), is pleased to announce that it has been granted an experimental operating certificate by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), file number 0378-EX-ST-2017X. The FCC’s approval will allow ABWN to ground test and flight test its demonstration system, in the development of the Infinitus Super Highway, the Company’s patented air-to-air communication system. The FCC’s approval allows the Company to conduct testing on the ground and over its intended flight test operating area near Roswell, New Mexico.
As part of the tests, the Company will utilize two Boeing testbed aircraft and pass broadband data between each aircraft inflight and a ground station, in a first of its kind air-to-air and air-to-ground meshed network link.
Jason T. de Mos, the Company’s Vice President of Business Development and Aviation Compliance, said, “This approval is a significant achievement in the testing and development of our Infinitus Super Highway. We believe our technology has the potential to become an important opportunity for improving and creating a global pipeline that takes connectivity beyond current limitations. We are very much looking forward to the test demonstration and bringing this new, highly innovative communications network system to market.”