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Airfone was an air-ground
radiotelephone service developed by MCI
founder John D. Goeken, and
operated under the
names Airfone, GTE
Airfone, and Verizon...
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abandoned its 800 MHz air-ground
offering in 2005, and
Verizon AIRFONE (formerly GTE
Airfone) is
scheduled for
decommissioning in late 2008,
although the...
- 2008,
JetBlue announced that it will buy Verizon's
Airfone (Formerly: GTE
Airfone, Formerly:
Airfone) service.
Continental Airlines began to add LiveTV...
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companies founded by
Goeken include the FTD
Mercury Network (flower delivery),
Airfone (later sold to GTE), and the In-Flight
Phone Corp. He
established Goeken...
- On
April 15, 2013
Aircell completed its
acquisition of
Airfone from LiveTV. The
original Airfone service was shut down on
December 31, 2013. On September...
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early 1980s. In 1981,
Western Union purchased a 50%
interest in
Airfone. It sold
Airfone to GTE in 1986 for $39
million in cash. From 1982, as a result...
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inside to make
contact with the
plane by
calling one of its p****engers via
Airfone.
Russell is
lauded as a hero for
making the
effort despite the threat,...
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computers to p****engers. The
airline was also an
early adopter of the GTE
Airfone in-flight
telephone system.
Flights offered free meals,
including chicken...
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under his
leadership were GTE
Mobilenet cellular telephone operations,
Airfone air-to-ground
telephone services, and the
first voice, video, and data...
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system for
private airplanes on a
paper napkin. John D.
Goeken of MCI and
Airfone had
already invented an
automated air-to-ground
telephone system in the...
