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Show Provo, Utah Sunday, April 16, 2000, THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HaATheHerald.com), Internet provider boosts communications features n LAKE CITY -I- resources and personnel neces- time, anywhere. Users can even ic number. Users can also fewer for interruptions, KANO Communications, the sary to offer a turnkey Internet obtain messages, including voicemail and fax, via the while ensuring that specific or market-leadinprovider of solution to its partners. Internet. IKANO's unified communiurgent calls will not be branded Internet services, me" missed. "follow An the announced today it has pro- cations solution will enable incorporated "This call connect feature to callers enable will of feature cured the ability to offer unified seamless convergence find users wherever they are. takes us far beyond the usual communications to its branded Internet and telephone commufeatures of most Callers dial the user's one nications. Unified communicaInternet service clients. number and the system hunts unified messaging solutions," IKANO's branded Internet tions allow all communications services enable any company, to be incorporated under one for the user at hisher various said Henry Smith, IKANO in president and CEO. "With this organization, affinity group or phone number. Whether the locations. The user remains control and software, end users have the can prethe at office, is to complete association user home, provide group of unified messaging benefits of the Internet access to its customers using a wireless phone, pager set the calling sequence the enhancement of with as able contact to various along be numbers, will callers or or members on a private label fax, and 'find me, number basis. IKANO provides the contact them. 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EOE client-centere- WADDELL SrREED Financial Services Send your letter and resume to: Companies working to wire airline passengers By 5252 North waddetl.com THE DAILY HERALD The latest in BYU Sports online The farted t growing newspaper in Utah WOToIlflaiMifllo?aQ(ilDiMi CHRIS KNAP Knight Ridder Newspapers Avionics IRVINE, Calif. companies are scrambling to wire airliners for live television and service, and say experts high-spee- Internet access could be available as soon as next year. Sextant Systems, and Primex Irvine, of Redmond, Aerospace, Wash., announced advances last week; just prior to the Passenger Entertainment Conference in Mil London;;But so far, no company has put together a system power- An Open of ; ful enough to let jet passengers surf the Net as they do at " ''".- - ' home. ", of lot is a emphasis "There, going to creating wide enough l"" Friends and Customers to Our ' DearMV. . bandwidth to make ground communication a reality for the passenger. Nobody air-to- knows who's going to be lnwBhS5 - suc- Bancorp, cessful at this point," said Beth deYoung, director of business ' development for consider n0 this to be mtn communities- of our best interest being muCh to gain by - .. oart of a larger Farg0 Primex Aerospace. commuMobile high-speenication is expected to eventually generate billions of dollars in sales. But, just as with d global : satellite telephones, some companies may fail before others succeed. "Boeing and others wouldn't be pursuing this if there weren't a pot at the end of the rainbow," said Paul Nisbet of JSA Research Inc. . . communications Current technology for airline passen- gers is relatively crude: Only a few passengers at a time 0 can use the telephones installed in seat backs. Computers can be plugged into the receivers, but they're not designed for data. The difference between the airline phones and the new systems being planned will be similar to the difference between download ing a Web site with a slower modem vs. the newer, speedy digital . lines. airof hundreds Allowing line passengers to simultaneously download data from the Internet requires a sophisticated antenna that can track satellites and broadcast streams of data . high-spee- d high-spee- d tecome to ou, tae sub-scrib- we best way Know Sincerely, earth-orbitin- g from a ' jet moving miles per hour. To understand the at 500 difficul- ty of this project, imagine a satellite TV dish used for home reception. Now imagine that the home is moving at high speed. Now imagine that the dish must send as well as receive. "The challenges are not technologically as great as you might think," said Terry Ferguson, vice president of for planning strategic Hughes' DirecTV. "For the airlines, the real issue is one of economics. It's not just the cost of the system, it's the weight and the space the system will take up. Weight and space is equivashe lent to fewer passengers," said. and Both deYoung ' . Ferguson said they expect that the first systems offering Internet mobile high-speeaccess will be available next year. "Five years from now it will be common, and it will change the experience of the airline passenger," deYoung said. d '. "SiSs Provo, Utah 84604 Fax lw.M' lit "V'V V v W,1 . First Security Corporation' m st'-- |