Intelsat announced the beginning of Intelsat’s inflight connectivity services in Indian skies through an agreement with Tata Group satellite services firm Nelco. As part of the collaboration, Intelsat’s airline partners and flyers will enjoy end-to-end broadband coverage on domestic and international aircraft flying to and from an Indian airport as well as the aircraft flying over the country. Nelco has a permit to provide in-flight telecom services in India.
Nelco has been offering the Aero IFC services for more than two years with plans to introduce these services to more airlines in collaboration with its global partners. Nelco will provide inflight services using Intelsat’s IS-33e high throughput satellite. IS-33e was launched in 2016 that provides C and Ku-band connectivity to parts of Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.