telecommunication

Minister for Communications and Multimedia of Malaysia Ahmad Shabery Cheek calls on the ITU to develop leading edge standards to facilitate the transmission of flight data in real time.
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UN telecom head calls for real-time flight data in wake of Malaysian airline tragedy

1 April 2014
In the wake of the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and the ongoing hunt for the plane, the head of the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) today committed the agency to the search for a real-time inflight communications system, drawing on new technology to help improve on the 50-year-old “black box” model.