Inmarsat and Panasonic Avionics Enter Into Landmark Strategic Collaboration for Commercial Aviation
Summary
"Our highly complementary collaboration with Panasonic combines the unique expertise and proven capabilities of both companies to create a market-leading in-flight connectivity offer for aircraft manufacturers, airlines and their passengers. "Todays landmark announcement is clear evidence of Inmarsat delivering on its strategy and strengthens our conviction that, building upon the success of the global GX network, aviation will be a significant individual growth driver of our overall business. "We look forward to working closely with Panasonic as we develop the relationship and accelerate our respective innovation roadmaps to ensure we continue to provide airlines and passengers with the worlds leading IFC experience." Inmarsats existing agreements with other strategic partners in the industry will remain unaffected, while Panasonic will continue to improve and offer its high-performance global Ku-band satellite network in delivering IFC services to its aviation customers worldwide. This strategy is focused on layering additional capacity to the GX global network to meet escalating demand from airline customers in specific regions Panasonic Avionics Corporation is the worlds leading supplier of inflight entertainment and communication systems.